{"id":1056768,"date":"2026-06-29T04:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1056768\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T04:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:27:28","slug":"china-trade-clash-ebola-health-push-and-irelands-turn-at-the-eu-helm-this-week-euobserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1056768\/","title":{"rendered":"China trade clash, Ebola health push, and Ireland\u2019s turn at the EU helm\u00a0THIS WEEK \u2013 EUobserver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to reduce the EU\u2019s yawning\u00a0\u20ac1bn-per-day trade deficit with China will be the main item on the EU Commission\u2019s agenda\u00a0this week, with\u00a0Beijing\u2019s\u00a0commerce\u00a0minister Wang Wentao\u00a0and EU trade commissioner Maros \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d\u00a0\u00a0in Brussels\u00a0on Monday (29\u00a0June)\u00a0for a highly-anticipated\u00a0meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The commission has made no secret of its growing frustration at Beijing\u2019s reluctance to acknowledge that its\u00a0combination of subsidies and deliberate over-supply are crippling EU firms and pose a systemic threat to the future of the bloc\u2019s manufacturing industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d\u2019s office has\u00a0drafted\u00a0plans for\u00a0an <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/218003\/china-threatens-retaliation-over-new-eu-tool-to-curb-chinese-overcapacity\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"218003\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018overcapacity\u2019 instrument<\/a> that would allow the EU to impose new tariffs on a raft of Chinese industrial goods and import limits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/222436\/eu-leaders-to-pick-from-menu-of-anti-china-trade-measures-over-summit-dinner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7ac070ac811e2e8c3a3bb0d0df46a166-600x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His officials have also mooted a \u2018diversification\u2019 instrument that would force\u00a0European companies to diversify supply sources in critical sectors, in a move to reduce industrial\u00a0dependency\u00a0on China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But while the meeting with Wentao had been billed by EU officials in early June as crunch talks on China\u2019s industrial oversupply, pushback from some EU leaders at their summit in Brussels in mid-June on the urgency of implementing new trade\u00a0defence\u00a0measures means that diplomatic fireworks are not expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How to reduce the EU\u2019s yawning\u00a0\u20ac1bn-per-day trade deficit with China will be the main item on the EU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1056769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[217083,2000,299,5187,273381,273380,218474],"class_list":["post-1056768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-typedefinedterm","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-identifier4063","tag-namethis-week-agenda","tag-termcodeagenda"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116831508835541732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056768","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=1056768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}