EU Trade Commissioner urging deeper global and bilateral trade and investment ties
July 18, 2016 Category 11th EU-China Business Summit, Weekly
During a four-day visit to China, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström spoke to students at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing. She stressed the enormous benefits that the EU-China relationship had brought to both sides and argued that in addressing their own major challenges – a sustained economic recovery across the EU and reform and opening up in China – both sides would benefit each other as well as their own citizens.
She highlighted a number of concerns on the lack of a level playing field for EU firms doing business in and with China, stressed the potential of negotiations for an EU China Investment Agreement and argued for joint EU and Chinese leadership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Commissioner’s visit to Beijing follows meetings in Shanghai for the G20 meeting of trade ministers, where she and other representatives of the world’s leading economies stressed the importance of trade and investment for global growth and employment and recommitted to their pledge to avoid protectionism.
The Commissioner also participated in the EU-China Summit alongside President Juncker, President Tusk and Vice President Mogherini. In parallel she gave a speech to business leaders at the EU-China Business Summit.
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