{"id":9384,"date":"2026-02-11T12:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/9384\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:13:24","slug":"the-eus-secret-weapon-to-shut-out-chinese-companies-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/9384\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU\u2019s secret weapon to shut out Chinese companies \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

EU strings attached <\/p>\n

The crackdown stems from a clause that the Commission introduced in the budget rules in 2024<\/a> that set out \u201csecurity requirements\u201d for certain EU public contracts that\u00a0involve strategic assets.<\/p>\n

The Commission will outline what those requirements are and which sectors they\u2019ll affect next month. The guidelines could, for example, go as far as restricting Chinese firms from producing inverters\u00a0used in solar panels, one of the officials said. The rules will also apply to projects undertaken by the European Investment Bank, the bloc\u2019s lending arm. Brussels will stop short of singling out the countries that\u2019ll be cut off from EU public money, however.<\/p>\n

Under the new budget in 2028, the overhaul could narrow the access of foreign companies to the European Competitiveness Fund<\/a> \u2014\u00a0a \u20ac410 billion cash pot to promote industrial development \u2014\u00a0and the Global Europe Fund<\/a>, which is worth \u20ac200 billion and finances EU aid to developing countries.<\/p>\n

\"\"The crackdown stems from a clause that the European Commission introduced in the budget rules in 2024. | Nicolas Economou\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The French may welcome the looming crackdown, as Paris pushes for a \u201cEuropean preference\u201d across the whole budget. But the Commission\u2019s pitch will meet resistance from a group of Northern European countries.<\/p>\n

In a joint letter<\/a>, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Sweden warned that prioritizing European goods and services \u201crisks wiping out our simplification efforts, hindering companies\u2019 access to world-leading technology \u2026 and pushing investments away from the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshua Berlinger contributed reporting from Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EU strings attached The crackdown stems from a clause that the Commission introduced in the budget rules in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,3651,5025,174,4740,228,7539,5032,167,7540,4007,158,234,190,49,4157,169,171,1530,3654,7541,4092,2276,1866,7542,132,239,1197,240,76,3271],"class_list":{"0":"post-9384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-brussels","10":"tag-budget","11":"tag-buildings","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-companies","14":"tag-competitiveness","15":"tag-conditionality","16":"tag-development","17":"tag-estonia","18":"tag-eu-budget","19":"tag-finance","20":"tag-finland","21":"tag-france","22":"tag-germany","23":"tag-industry","24":"tag-investment","25":"tag-latvia","26":"tag-lithuania","27":"tag-maros-sefcovic","28":"tag-negotiations","29":"tag-piotr-serafin","30":"tag-public-funding","31":"tag-security","32":"tag-services","33":"tag-stephane-sejourne","34":"tag-sweden","35":"tag-technology","36":"tag-the-netherlands","37":"tag-trade","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-valdis-dombrovskis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}