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A record deficit of 400 billion euros between China and the EU, which has doubled in two years! Europe is struggling to impose its autonomy strategy.
Par Emmanuel Berretta
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Uweek of failures, misunderstandings, confusion… The trips of Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen to Beijing, and the cancellation of Josep Borrell’s trip due to Covid-19, who should have been there this Friday April 14, leave a bitter aftertaste of general confusion.
A need to see clearly is felt among MEPs who are quite angry at this sequence where the French president has not really reassured our European partners and upset Washington at a time when American support for Ukraine appears vital. A debate will be organized next week, in the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, on EU-China relations. Very degraded relations over the past three years which, contrary to all the discourse on European strategic autonomy, marked a p…