International trade
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26 November 20101PresseuropRzeczpospolita
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International Trade
Beijing is buying our connivance
8 November 2010Público Lisbon -
EU-CHINA
Time to change tack with Beijing
6 October 20101Le Soir Brussels -
Germany/China
Friends today, rivals tomorrow?
23 August 2010PresseuropDer Spiegel -
Agriculture
EU puts GM crops on the menu
10 June 20101Le Monde Paris -
EU-LAC summit
Deal or no deal with Latin America?
20 May 2010Presseurop -
After Lisbon (2)
Europe’s plot to take over the world
7 October 2009Financial Times London -
Regional cooperation
Baltic Blues
17 August 2009Polityka Warsaw
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. 
Europe lacks the necessary political armour to defend itself against China’s ongoing monetary and commercial offensive. A number of experts argue that a change in its historically benevolent attitude to Beijing is now on the cards. 
The European Commission intends to authorise more and more genetically modified crops (GMCs), leaving it up to member states to ban them as they see fit. That should satisfy biotech-friendly nations – while allowing those opposed to keep GMCs off their soil. 
Overshadowed by the economic storm which has swept across Europe, the 19 May conclusion of the sixth EU-Latin America and Carribean Summit (EU-LAC) was marked by the announcement of a number of trade deals and well-intentioned declarations. However, the Latin-American and Spanish press is not convinced that 2010 EU-LAC will herald a new era of closer relations between the two continents. 
Strengthened by Ireland’s ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union, it is argued, may now be on the verge of becoming a global superpower. The way to achieve this ambition, notes Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times, is in using the new platform that the G20 offers. 
Several years ago, the Baltic became the EU’s internal sea. But what kind of a sea is it? A shallow, closed, poor, one that divides rather than connects. On economic as well as environmental issues, the future of the Baltic states is bound in cooperation with neighbouring countries and with the European Union.