German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday divulged that the commission was considering an EU subsidy programme that he had proposed. The German government scrapped its own scheme abruptly in 2023, leading to a plunge in EV sales.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the World Economic Forum (WEF). Photo: VCG. In a speech delivered on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum (WEF), European Comm

The European Commission filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization on Monday against what it said was China's "unfair and illegal" practice of setting worldwide royalty rates for EU standard essential patents without the patent owner's consent.

EU, German and Chinese leaders took turns defending global cooperation in Davos on Tuesday as the spectre of new trade wars looms following Donald Trump's return to the White House.

China EU relations. President Xi Jinping had a phone call with President of the European Council Antonio Costa at the latter's request on January 14. The first contact of Presiden

On January 20, 2025, the European Union (EU) has filed a second request for consultations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) aiming to remove allegedly “unfair and illegal trade practices by China in the sphere of intellectual property.

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.

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 the European Union’s measures to shield its companies from foreign subsidies are a barrier to trade and investment, marking the latest clash in the ongoing trade dispute between the two sides.

“The European Union is very, very bad to us, they treat us very badly. They don’t take our cars, they don’t take our cars at all, they don’t take our farm products,” Trump said this week. “They are going to be in for tariffs… It’s the only way you’re going to get fairness,” he said.

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.