The European Union is debating whether to drop a sensitive trade investigation against China over alleged coercive activity targeting Lithuania, a prospect that’s frustrated officials in Washington, where the incoming Trump team sees it as capitulation to Beijing.
China said on Thursday it would apply provisional duties on imports of industrial plastics from the United States, European Union, Japan and Taiwan after a months-long anti-dumping investigation.
It was just past 11 on a freezing December morning on the outskirts of Brussels, but already workers at the city's Audi factory were cracking open frosty cans of beer. They had just finished a long night shift - not on one of the production lines at a plant that has produced 8 million cars since 1949,
European Union companies could become more competitive against their U.S. and Chinese rivals if they paid less for energy -- a goal governments could achieve by cooperating to invest and to integrate the EU's fragmented energy market,
With the China-EU relationship entering its 50th year and US president-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House on January 20, how Europe's China policy will evolve has garnered great attention.
EU weighs curbs on Chinese medical device makers
Attacks on underwater cables in strategic areas connecting telecommunication lines and power sources in Asia and Europe are suspected to be coordinated attacks by China and Russia.
VCG. China hopes the EU can work with China in the same direction, honor its commitment to open market and the principle of fair competition, observe WTO rules, pro
Leaders of the European Commission and the European Council regularly hold annual summits with China, but did not in 2024. The most recent summit, held in December 2023, had already been overshadowed by looming tensions over trade measures.
British chancellor Rachel Reeves’s visit to Beijing over the weekend shows the Labour government’s willingness to re-engage with China. But this strategy could strain the Britain’s relationship with t
Greece’s Metlen Energy & Metals SA will invest about €296 million ($304 million) in the European Union’s first gallium production line, as China’s ban on exports of the critical mineral to the US encourages Western nations to seek their own supplies.
The proposed meeting signals to Washington, days before Trump’s inauguration, that Brussels wants to keep its options open toward Beijing.