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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      What EU countries fight about when they fight about the budget Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: France’s selective bashing of Chinese electric vehicles

      Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      News in-depth
      ‘We were not hard enough’: how past trade tensions inspired Brussels’ fresh China crackdown

      EU believes ramping up pressure on Beijing is the only way to tackle huge bilateral trade deficit

    • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
      InterviewChinese business & finance
      Beijing’s data and spy laws threaten to spur decoupling with Europe, says business group

      BusinessEurope claims that anti-espionage amendments make the relationship with China ‘challenging’

      A picture of China’s flag fluttering in Beijing
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      EU considers anti-subsidy probe into Chinese wind turbines

      Competition commissioner says inquiry could follow similar move to challenge China’s sales of electric vehicles in Europe

      Wind turbines off the coast of Germany
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Foreign brands including Tesla to face scrutiny as part of EU probe into China car subsidies

      Valdis Dombrovskis claims ‘sufficient prima facie evidence’ to examine foreign electric-vehicle makers’ operations

      EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis at a news conference in Beijing, China on September 26 2023
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      EU trade
      Germany leads push to delay electric vehicle tariffs between EU and UK

      Berlin and carmakers back UK call for three-year pause on requirement for batteries to be produced locally

      A BMW i4 electric car on display at a BMW showroom in Berlin
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      China and EU agree export controls ‘mechanism’ to ease trade tensions

      Signal of willingness to engage as Brussels trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis warns two sides could ‘drift apart’

      EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis, left, and Chinese vice-premier He Lifeng shake hands
    • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
      EU trade chief warns of ‘new areas of concern’ in China relationship

      Valdis Dombrovskis demands greater access for European companies in Financial Times interview

      Valdis Dombrovskis speaking at a lecturn against a blue background with ‘Bund Summit 2023’ written on it in white capitals
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      EU trade commissioner to seek relief from export barriers during China visit

      Valdis Dombrovskis will face resistance over EV anti-subsidy probe as he pushes to rebalance €400bn deficit

      EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      EU envoy decries ‘highest deficit in history’ ahead of China trade talks

      Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis’ visit comes as Brussels opens anti-subsidy probe into electric vehicles

      BYD electric cars wait to be be loaded on to a container ship at Suzhou port in China’s eastern Jiangsu province
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      EU companies warn China on EV overcapacity

      Business group says concerns Europe’s automotive sector could be swamped are ‘understandable’

      A worker at a battery plant in China’s Anhui province
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      News in-depthClimate change
      EU-China fight further muddies Brussels ‘Green Deal’ agenda

      Diplomats warn against provoking Beijing to avoid delaying bloc’s climate ambitions

      German farmers supporting the EU’s Green Deal proposed bill demonstrate in front of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Automobiles
      German carmakers in the line of fire of possible EU-China trade war

      Resentment is brewing that Brussels’ subsidies probe against Beijing benefits French rivals

      Visitors look at Volkswagen electric vehicles at the Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      German economy
      German companies must cut exposure to China, warns Bundesbank

      Central bank says operations susceptible to trade disruption as foreign minister backs Brussels’ electric vehicle probe

      Containers piled up in the harbor in Hamburg, Germany
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      EU warns of ‘possible’ Chinese retaliation over electric car probe

      Brussels is wary that Beijing could target specific sectors in individual countries of the bloc

      A BYD Seal electric car at the Munich Motor Show
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The EU and China clash on electric vehicles

      Resorting to protectionist measures is not in Brussels’ long-term interests

      Electric vehicles bound for shipment to Europe in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, China, last month
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Electric vehicles
      China attacks EU’s ‘naked protectionist act’ on electric cars

      Beijing warns anti-subsidies investigation will have negative impact on relations

      A showroom for Nio electric cars in Shanghai
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Belt and Road Initiative
      Meloni calls for ‘mutually beneficial’ China trade as Belt & Road decision looms

      Italy seeks to extricate itself from Beijing’s flagship foreign policy initiative without provoking its wrath

      Giorgia Meloni during a news conference on Sunday in New Delhi after attending the G20 summit
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      German economy
      German minister proposes tougher rules on Chinese foreign direct investment

      Deputy chancellor urges stricter controls on overseas groups’ operations in critical sectors such as semiconductors and AI

      Germany’s deputy chancellor Robert Habeck, pictured in June 2022
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      News in-depth
      EU struggles to ‘de-risk’ trade with China

      Bloc faces ‘devilishly difficult’ task of reducing dependence on Beijing after stepping into gaps left by US, say analysts

      Image of dock workers loading sacks of fertiliser onto a barge in Shanghai, China for export, overlaid with red and yellow line chart
    • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
      France’s Eramet blames lack of EU funds for deeper partnership with Chinese

      Company says mining groups need more support to develop critical resources for electric car batteries

      Eramet’s nickel factory in Nouméa
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Germany’s strategy to ‘de-risk’ ties with China

      Restrictions in sensitive areas should allow commerce to flourish in others

      Annalena Baerbock, German foreign minister, presents Germany’s future China policy at the Merics institute in Berlin
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      De-risking trade with China is intrinsically political

      It’s absurd to suggest that companies alone can manage economic relations between Beijing and the west

      A VDU screen displays the Nvidia logo while a building in the distance also sports the brand name
    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      News in-depth
      China’s premier avoids ‘factional confrontation’ with Europe on maiden trip

      Li Qiang says EU ‘de-risking’ strategy need not jeopardise economic ties with Beijing

      Li Qiang offers a toast during a working lunch with the French prime minister in Paris
    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      Volkswagen AG
      Volkswagen plans external audit of controversial plant in Xinjiang

      German carmaker responds to accusations it is linked to forced labour

      The assembly line at the Xinjiang car plant
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