It becomes clear on the first few pages who has the greatest threat potential: “China is willing to use economic punishment to change EU policy,” according to a report by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) published on Wednesday. Russia, Turkey, and the US, too, are using economic pressure – the stronger China gets, […]
“Offen, nachhaltig und durchsetzungsfähig” soll die EU-Handelspolitik in den kommenden Jahren aussehen. Dass der größte Partner China bei der Neuausrichtung der Brüsseler Handelsstrategie eine herausragende Rolle spielt, wurde auch bei der Präsentation gestern klar – denn die Beziehungen zu Peking bekamen von Handelskommissar Valdis Dombrovskis noch drei zusätzliche Wunsch-Charakteristika verpasst: “Wechselseitig, ausgewogen und fair” (“reciprocal, […]
The EU’s trade policy is to be “open, sustainable and assertive” in the coming years. That China, the EU’s largest partner, plays a prominent role in the reorientation of Brussels’ trade strategy also became clear at yesterday’s presentation – because Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis gave relations with Beijing three additional desired characteristics: trade relations must […]