{"id":1041520,"date":"2026-06-21T20:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1041520\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:54:17","slug":"eu-summit-europe-is-shooting-at-an-elephant-with-an-air-pistol-table-briefings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1041520\/","title":{"rendered":"EU summit: \u201cEurope is shooting at an elephant with an air pistol\u201d \u2022 Table.Briefings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-base md:text-xl font-semibold text-gray-700 leading-relaxed\">\n                The second China shock is hitting Europe hard, but Brussels is hesitating. While China\u2019s export machine keeps running unchecked and entire industries come under pressure, the EU is still arguing about new instruments instead of using the ones it already has. Economist Sander Tordoir explains why time is running out.\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/amelie-richter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" class=\"w-full h-full rounded-full\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                            21. June 2026\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Recipients need a subscription to read\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                                                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782075255_779_amelie-richter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" class=\"w-full h-full rounded-full\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                        21. June 2026\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                Recipients need a subscription to read\n            <\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/screenshot-2026-06-21-at-09.46.37.png\" alt=\"Sander Tordoir\" width=\"1024\" height=\"721\" class=\"w-full md:h-auto print:h-auto object-cover rounded-lg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Sander Tordoir is the chief economist at the Center for European Reform (CER). (Sander Tordoir)    <\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-12 text-sm text-gray-600\">\n            Last updated: 21. June 2026\n        <\/p>\n<p>            Share article:<\/p>\n<p>\n                Recipients need a subscription to read\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second China shock is hitting Europe hard, but Brussels is hesitating. While China\u2019s export machine keeps running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1041521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,7335,299,5187,1201,66932,286862],"class_list":["post-1041520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-eu","tag-eu-commission","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-trade","tag-trade-policy","tag-trade-protection"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116790092776246724","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}