China
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Air travel
China strikes first blow against EU tax
6 February 201210PresseuropFinancial Times -
Eurozone crisis
Beijing tells Merkel “to do her homework”
3 February 20128PresseuropHandelsblatt -
2 February 2012Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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19 January 2012The Nation Bangkok
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6 December 201115Expresso Lisbon
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Geopolitics
It’s too early to write Europe off
5 December 20114De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Debate
Why Europe needs enemies
17 November 20118Hospodářské noviny Prague -
8 November 20111Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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7 November 2011NRC Handelsblad Rotterdam
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2 November 2011L'Hebdo Lausanne
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Eurozone crisis
Chinese saviour is in debt too
31 October 20113PresseuropDie Presse -
Debt crisis
China is ready to help
28 October 20119The Global Times Beijing -
Debt crisis
The Moscow-Beijing option
25 October 20112PresseuropExpansión -
EU-China
No desire to die Chinese
13 October 201110La Stampa Turin -
14 September 2011Corriere della Sera Milan
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Debt Crisis
Beijing is no white knight
14 September 20114La Repubblica Rome -
9/11, 10 years on
The East rises over Ground Zero
9 September 20112The Guardian London -
Political fiction
A brave new superpower
22 August 20115Le Figaro Paris -
Internet
We need a Euro-Google
9 August 20113Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Middle East
Europe has a role to play
28 July 20111Al Hayat London -
Germany
The economy storming the world
27 July 2011PresseuropFinancial Times Deutschland -
28 June 20112The Guardian London
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China – Germany
Tokens of friendship
27 June 20111PresseuropBerliner Zeitung -
21 June 2011The New York Times New York
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16 June 20111Polityka Warsaw
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Germany
Who's afraid of big bad China?
15 June 2011PresseuropFinancial Times Deutschland -
Air travel
EU-China deadlock over CO2
7 June 2011PresseuropLa Stampa -
Editorial
Hanging on
20 May 2011Presseurop -
Strauss-Kahn affair
Why the IMF should stay European
20 May 20114Le Figaro Paris -
Sweden
Chinese to Saab's rescue
3 May 2011PresseuropDagens industri -
IDEAS
The West, past its best
15 March 20111PresseuropCourrier international -
Czech Republic
Schoolkids taught to "compete" with China
1 March 20111PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
21 February 2011PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna
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Tourism
Chinese are the new Americans
25 January 2011La Repubblica Rome -
14 January 2011Al-Mustaqbal Beirut
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Debt crisis
When a country buys its own debt
14 January 2011Presseuropi -
Debt crisis
Suspense over the future of the euro
12 January 2011Presseurop -
Arms trade
London hostile to lifting China embargo
12 January 2011PresseuropThe Times -
11 January 2011Het Financieele Dagblad Amsterdam
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High Tech
Europe clings to her cable industry
7 January 20111PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Emerging economies
Globalisation 2.0: How the West lost it
6 January 20112La Repubblica Rome -
China-EU
Beijing, the self-serving life-saver
5 January 20114Presseurop -
Debt crisis
China to the rescue
22 December 2010PresseuropLa Tribune -
Human Rights
Lady Ashton fails to do the Nobel thing
10 December 20101PresseuropDagens Nyheter -
Infrastructures
European roads, made in China
2 December 20101Respekt Prague -
International Trade
Beijing is buying our connivance
8 November 2010Público Lisbon -
Diplomacy
Paris rolls over for Beijing
4 November 2010PresseuropLes Echos -
International Trade
China bites into Europe’s soft underbelly
2 November 20102The New York Times New York -
Clothes industry
Chinese gangs got it made in Europe
12 October 2010Hospodářské noviny Prague -
Editorial
The real problem with China
12 October 2010Presseurop
To cut its debt, Portugal’s government has embarked on a far-reaching privatisation program. Brazilian, Chinese and Angolans are the main candidates for taking over its national enterprises. 
Economic power is not the only criterion for global power. What matters is how political systems respond to new crises. And from this perspective, the EU is still in with a chance, writes Dutch historian Dirk-Jan van Baar. 
Nothing better than an enemy to forge a common identity. But the adage of the nineteenth century doesn’t quite fit the current crisis. Only by changing their relationship to power can Europeans unite and overcome the crisis, says a Czech editorialist. 
The EFSF was meant to save the single currency. And yet it has found no buyers. Investors are shying away from a complicated, uncertain financial product whose weaknesses the politicians are trying to cover up. 
The eurozone is looking for financial aid from emerging countries, mainly China. A prospect that sends shivers down the spines of many Europeans. But for the official Beijing daily Global Times, any future deal will need to be a “civilized” one. 
Italian writer Antonio Scurati believes that the boom in Chinese investment in Europe and the influence of Chinese capitalism on the European economy are a threat to the freedom and sovereignty of Europeans and for their social and cultural model. 
The announcement by Italy of a flow of Chinese capital rushing in to support the Italian economy has raised hopes of Beijing riding up to rescue the euro. We must be wary of false hopes, however, writes La Repubblica. China is a prudent and discriminating investor. 
We have spent the years since the attacks on US soil focusing on the terrorist threat and wars in Afganistan and Iraq. But we have been blind to the real global change : the slow but unstoppable rise of China, writes Timothy Garton Ash. 
Le Figaro's fictional series "The world in 20 years" begins with the view from Europe. In 2031, the launch of a European flagship inaugurates an age of shared defence and marks the final move in a "great awakening" that began fifteen years before. The Union is a superpower at last. 
What you can look up, you needn’t commit to memory. This old maxim is one that drives Google's business today. But the Internet revolution is still in its infancy, and soon the material of our everyday lives could be fodder for search engines. We should be cautious about what we hand over, warns FAZ. 
After years of playing a secondary role in the Arab world, the EU now has an opportunity to exert a positive influence in a region where the United States and Russia have failed to respond to radical change. An Al-Hayat columnist outlines how Europe can make a difference. 
The European debt crisis is an open goal for Chinese investment overseas. This is why we need to understand what kind of power China is becoming, argues British historian Timothy Garton Ash. 
The construction of the A2 by the COVEC Group was supposed to herald the Chinese construction giant’s entry into Europe. But the company, which underestimated the mysteries of Polish public tenders, has been forced to suspend work on the project. 
At a time when the eurozone is in danger of breaking up, Europe must not surrender the leadership of the International Monetary Fund for the benefit of Asia or Latin America, pens an editorialist in Le Figaro, who suggests that the person best qualified to take over the job of Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the French Minister of Finance, Christine Lagarde. 
Buoyed by the emergence of China’s middle class, the growing wave of travelers from China could revitalise the European tourist industry. But businesses in the sector have yet to adapt to their new customers. 
With several countries preparing bond issues and subjecting them to the “test of the markets,” the next few days will be decisive for the future of the euro. As the European press explains, we’ll shortly have a clear measure of market confidence in the capacity of the most fragile countries of the Eurozone to put their finances in order, as well as on the future stability of the single currency. 
As the West stews in stagnation, emerging economies are on the rise – and driving prices of raw materials and fuel to perilous highs. As they now set the pace of the global economy, Europe, stymied by cutbacks and unemployment, is in for hard times ahead. 
After Greece and Portugal, Peking has now come to the rescue of crisis-stricken Spain, with a massive buy-up of national debt. A symbol of increasing inroads China is making in Europe, notes the press. 
The advent of Chinese companies has shaken up the civil engineering market in Poland, and aroused the interest of its Czech neighbours. The Chinese secret: cut rates, punctuality and using local manpower. Plus backup from Beijing, of course. 
Portugal, a nation battered by the crisis, is welcoming Chinese investment with open arms – as are Greece and France. But there’s a price to be paid for doing business with Beijing: the end of the West lecturing China on democracy. 
Beijing is fast building a bridgehead in Europe by buying up government debt and key strategic assets on the cheap in countries like Greece, Ireland and Spain that have been enfeebled by the crisis. But its long-term ambitions are not just to make money — it wants more of a say in Brussels too. 
A hub for an illegal trade in Asian textiles, the Czech Republic is struggling to recover millions in lost VAT revenue. Defeating the fraudsters will require greater tax cooperation between European states.