EU-China Summit – building new connections
The EU-China Summit on 29 June 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of EU-China diplomatic relations. It provides an opportunity not only to take stock of progress achieved on the EU-China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation, such as in the ongoing negotiations of a bilateral investment agreement, but also to identify new fields of cooperation. New dialogue mechanisms could be launched in areas such as 'legal affairs', including the rule of law, an area in which some Member States have already engaged in bilateral dialogue with China. Of late, China's 'rule by law' concept has been high on the political agenda of the Chinese leadership. In the field of connectivity, potential synergies could be explored between China's pan-continental 'One Belt, One Road' initiative and the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI), also known as the 'Juncker plan'.
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- Asia and Oceania
- China
- economic geography
- ENVIRONMENT
- environmental policy
- EU investment
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- FINANCE
- financing and investment
- foreign investment
- GEOGRAPHY
- international affairs
- international meeting
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- investment abroad
- investment promotion
- Kyoto Protocol
- market access
- negotiation of an agreement (EU)
- organisation of transport
- reduction of gas emissions
- TRADE
- trade policy
- TRANSPORT
- transport network