A new report and presentation by the European Commission to the European Parliament builds on several years of experience with the EU's Foreign Subsidies Regulation to propose improvements and refinements to the regulation going forward.

At a European Parliament International Trade Committee meeting yesterday, a key European Commission trade official briefed members of Parliament on the state of play of EU-China trade and investment relations.

Last week, the European Parliament's International Trade Committee held a meeting on trade and investment relations with China.

At a meeting of the European Parliament's International Trade Committee today, the Committee engaged with the authors of a study on industrial overcapacity that looked at China's practices and possible EU responses.

At a meeting of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade yesterday, Sabine Weyand, the Director-General at DG Trade of the European Commission, testified on various EU-China trade issues, including export controls and trade remedy measures.

At a European Parliament Committee on International Trade meeting yesterday, Members of Parliament discussed the European Commission's recent conclusion of its first investigation under its International Procurement Instrument (IPI), which found "clear evidence of China limiting the access of EU medical devices producers to its government contracts

At an EU Parliament hearing yesterday, Commissioner-designate Maroš Šefčovič spoke and took questions from MEPs. China came up several times during the hearing, with overcapacity and geopolitics both discussed, and Šefčovič emphasized that EU trade policy towards China would be "assertive."