China-EU summit: "the European Union calls for rules of transparency and reciprocity"

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By: Florence Thomazeau

8 min

Advance in the negotiations on investments and trade despite growing tensions, in particular on Hong Kong or Huawei: this is the whole issue of the videoconference which brings together the heads of the EU, the German Chancellor and the Chinese President on Monday.

The thorny Sino-European investment agreement, the conclusion of which by the end of the year is deemed "possible" by Beijing.

Europeans want their companies in China to benefit from the same conditions as those offered to Chinese firms in the EU.

"We want fair competition rules, we demand reciprocity" in terms of openness, underlines a European official on condition of anonymity.  

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professor of economics at the University of Clermont-Auvergne and head of the Institute for Research on the Economy of China at CERDI.

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