Friedrich Merz\u2019s<\/a> coalition agreed to on Thursday. While the document did not mention China, German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said the government was adopting a tougher stance towards Beijing and would protect companies from unfair trade practices.<\/p>\n\u201cWe do not want trade imbalances of the current magnitude to arise or grow further,\u201d Merz said while presenting the plans in Berlin.<\/p>\n
Juergen Matthes, head of international economic policy at the German Economic Institute, described it as \u201ca substantial change of the German position\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hadn\u2019t expected it to be so clear, so substantial, and so public,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The package calls for robust protection against unfair competition, \u201cin particular through a faster and sector-wide application of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures at European level\u201d, and says any circumvention of those measures must be effectively prevented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s ruling coalition has pledged to take a tougher line on defending trade at the continental level, signalling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6292,18,89,722,393,5,39981,39726,3623,25449,39983,7760,7759,39982],"class_list":["post-47847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-beijing","tag-berlin","tag-china","tag-european-union","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-jurgen-matthes","tag-kiel-institute","tag-lars-klingbeil","tag-oecd","tag-rolf-langhammer","tag-shein","tag-temu","tag-us-section"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}