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An important step as part of the EU’s #FIMI efforts. Today, the EU imposed restrictive measures against 7 Russian individuals and 5 entities responsible for conducting a digital information manipulation campaign called 'RRN' (Recent Reliable News). Good! consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press…

Trade is a key #EU exclusive competence & a #geopolitical European Commission is surely aware that the Common Commercial Policy is a powerful strategic tool for 🇪🇺global action 1/5

Pleased to meet my counterpart Vice-Premier He Lifeng in person. 🇪🇺 & 🇨🇳 = key trading partners. We have much to gain from open dialogue, both on opportunities & challenges in our relationship. 🇪🇺-🇨🇳 High Level Economic & Trade Dialogue was a good step. But much work lies ahead.

Countering foreign information manipulation and interference: on 19 October experts from the European Commission, European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺, UK Government & other international stakeholders will discuss this challenge & our collective responses at our conference in London. ℹ️ eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un…

❗️Save the Date❗️ On 9 Nov 2023 (09:00-13:00), CSDS is organising an event on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (#FIMI). 2024 will be a big test for counter-FIMI strategies due to elections in 🇪🇺🇹🇼🇺🇸and we will discuss how best to safeguard democratic elections.

Next step for the European Economic Security Strategy. The European Commission recommends conducting, together with the Member States, a collective risk assessment on 4 #CriticalTechnology areas: 1. Advanced Semiconductors 2. Artificial Intelligence 3. Quantum 4. Biotechnologies

“EU-#China trade and economic relations are of strategic consequence, yet due to more and more market barriers on the Chinese side and their extended interpretation of national security, the relationship is marked by significant challenges”, says Winkler Gyula.

A sensible strategy must also include matters that are not directly #China related - namely the ratification of more EU #FTAs with third countries and more content for strategic trade deals such as those relating to #trade and #technology or those linked to critical supply chains

The 🇪🇺's upcoming economic security risk assessments based on a new list of of critical technologies is perhaps the most important deliverable of the economic security strategy. In this short piece I argue that these assessments should... 1/ ecfr.eu/article/de-ris…

The end of the end of history.

Excellent, focused exchange with a strong delegation of EuroCham Vietnam led by Chairman Gabor Fluit 🇪🇺🇻🇳 🤝EU-Vietnam FTA #EVFTA has already delivered on less duties for 🇪🇺goods exports 👉Technical Barriers to Trade #tbt still high and getting more complex (pharma, cars) 👉Some

.INTA Committee Press passed with an overwhelming majority, with clear cross-party support, a resolution on EU-#Taiwan #Trade and #Investment relations 🇪🇺🇹🇼 👉The text comes to reconfirm the Committee’s position on the importance of bilateral ties, in pursuit of #rules-based & #values-based

🌍 Going global? Here’s the latest addition to our toolbox to help EU businesses expand abroad.   Access2Conformity will help exporters to: 👉reap the benefits of Mutual Recognition Agreements 👉cut red tape 👉save valuable time&money

New: 7.1% contraction in EU-China trade in 2023, per Chinese customs data 🇨🇳 exports to 🇪🇺-10.2% 🇨🇳 imports from 🇪🇺 -0.9% 🇨🇳 exports to 🇩🇪 -13% 🇨🇳 imports from 🇩🇪 -4.2% 🇨🇳 exports to 🇫🇷 -8.2% 🇨🇳 imports from 🇫🇷 +5.5% 🇨🇳 exports to 🇳🇱 -14.6% 🇨🇳 imports from 🇳🇱 +35.1% (ASML!)

Dr Tudor Petru Fabian, PhD, Policy Advisor to Winkler Gyula MEP and Coordinator of the Working Group on Trade with SME Europe of the EPP Group, discussed EU competitiveness in the global arena, calling for increased cooperation and trust between sectors to navigate transitions.

EU pledges €1.8bn for Moldova ahead of membership referendum on.ft.com/3zTbbpa

In #ChinaLeaks (C.H. Beck, 2024) investigative journalist Markus Frenzel uncovers Beijing's secret influence network in Germany. A must-read for those concerned about Western elites' complacency towards the Chinese Communist Party's illegal interference in liberal democracies /1

More SME-friendly policies &  more visibility for European Entrepreneurs, less bureaucracy & less red tape, more action by SME Europe of the EPP those are our plans for the next EP term.

Any attempt to unilaterally change the status-quo in the Taiwan Strait will incur a decisive reaction, say MEPs in a new resolution. europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…