{"id":520014,"date":"2026-06-05T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/520014\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:40:17","slug":"european-ceos-more-optimistic-about-business-prospects-in-india-than-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/520014\/","title":{"rendered":"European CEOs more optimistic about business prospects in India than in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

European CEOs remain cautious about China\u2019s long-term business prospects, according to a new report, with more now ranking their relationship with India a higher priority amid challenging global macroeconomic conditions.<\/p>\n

Asked about their expectations for business conditions in China more than three years down the road \u2013 in terms of regulatory stability and simplicity, openness and investment attractiveness \u2013 34 per cent of respondents to a survey were positive, 34 per cent were neutral and 23 per cent were negative, The Conference Board and the European Round Table for Industry said in a joint report published on Friday.<\/p>\n

It was based on a survey of the heads of Europe\u2019s 60 largest non-financial companies in April.<\/p>\n

The numbers suggested more favourable views about China in the long term, beyond three years, than in the medium term, since a report published last year showed only 8 per cent of respondents were planning to invest more in China, said Alejandro Fiorito, an economist at The Conference Board.<\/p>\n

But the new survey found European CEOs were much more enthusiastic about India, with 63 per cent of respondents positive, 7 per cent very positive, and just 4 per cent negative. Fifty-eight per cent of respondents said the European Union should give its relationship with India<\/a> \u2013 across areas including trade and investment, supply chains, technology, security, and climate and energy \u2013 \u201cvery high priority\u201d, compared with 53 per cent for the United States and 42 per cent for China.<\/p>\n

The CEOs\u2019 relative optimism about outside markets was underpinned by short-term worries about the global economic situation and pessimism about business conditions in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European CEOs remain cautious about China\u2019s long-term business prospects, according to a new report, with more now ranking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,42956,381,179,18,71275,1015,224728,5766,2219,224726,19,387,224727,17,224725,40784,37550,384],"class_list":["post-520014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-business-conditions","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-energy-security","tag-europe","tag-european-round-table-for-industry","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-global-macroeconomic-conditions","tag-ie","tag-india","tag-investment-attractiveness","tag-ireland","tag-regulatory-stability","tag-supply-chains","tag-the-conference-board","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116697315925553785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}