At a CSIS event yesterday entitled Rethinking Trade In a Geopolitical Context: Trends and Transatlantic Cooperation, European Commission Director General for Trade Sabine Weyand offered some general remarks on EU trade policy and trade relations with the U.S., and then discussed these issues further with U.S. trade policy

The EU Foreign Affairs Council met on Thursday to talk about trade issues, with China trade as one of the items on the agenda.

The European Commission announced yesterday that it had approved "a €130 million Lithuanian scheme to support and facilitate access to finance by companies affected by the exceptional circumstances resulting from China's discriminatory trade restrictions on Lithuania."

At an event put on by the Georgetown Law Center's Institute of International Economic Law, entitled "War and Values: Deepening the Transatlantic Bond at a Time of Crisis," European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis was asked about the implications of Russia's invasion of

The European Union Chamber of Commerce recently released a report detailing recommendations to improve the business environment and development in the southwest region of China.

At a Peterson Institute event today, entitled "Sanctions, Russia's war, and the future of trade," a U.S. scholar and a European Commission official both offered some thoughts on the future of economic relations with China.

On April 1, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang met virtually with President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen for the 23rd China-EU Summit. Although a large portion of the meeting focused on the Russia-Ukraine war, the two