{"id":61936,"date":"2025-04-30T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61936\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:53:08","slug":"china-to-lift-sanctions-on-eu-lawmakers-to-unlock-trade-talks-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61936\/","title":{"rendered":"China to lift sanctions on EU lawmakers to unlock trade talks \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lifting of sanctions comes against the backdrop of a decision by United States President Donald Trump to upend international trade relations by slapping tariffs on imports, with the most punitive levies falling on China. The resulting uncertainty has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/everyone-wants-more-trade-with-europe-amid-trump-tariff-uncertainty-says-von-der-leyen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jump-started EU trade negotiations with countries around the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-parliament-to-vote-on-freezing-china-deal-trade-sanctions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imposed the sanctions on the five MEPs in 2021<\/a>, the Parliament has held an unofficial veto on China, conditioning any potential diplomatic contact on Beijing&#8217;s lifting the sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>European Parliament lawmakers have not toned down their criticism of China, arguing that President Xi Jinping\u2019s aggressive trade and industrial policy and human rights violations must not go unchecked.<\/p>\n<p>The Parliament\u2019s leading MEP on international trade, Bernd Lange, said that despite the green light to engage with their Chinese counterparts, many obstacles remain to a smooth EU-China trade relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very concerned about China&#8217;s industrial policy that leads to market distortions and creates overcapacity that floods the world market,\u201d he said, adding he also wants to \u201cdiscuss intensively\u201d the market access barriers China has imposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacts do not change with lifting of sanctions,\u201d said French Socialist MEP Rapha\u00ebl Glucksmann, one of the sanctioned MEPs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lifting of sanctions comes against the backdrop of a decision by United States President Donald Trump to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[31927,1395,32,2000,299,5187,3749,4582,31928,475,2441,1216,11665,25800,12337,809,31929,5111,5338,46,31930,31931,48,31621,2663,2943,479,1201,49,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-61936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-bernd-lange","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-hong-kong","15":"tag-human-rights","16":"tag-ilhan-kyuchyuk","17":"tag-imports","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-maros-sefcovic","20":"tag-meps","21":"tag-michael-gahler","22":"tag-missions","23":"tag-negotiations","24":"tag-overcapacity","25":"tag-parliament","26":"tag-pedro-sanchez","27":"tag-policy","28":"tag-raphael-glucksmann","29":"tag-reinhard-butikofer","30":"tag-rights","31":"tag-roberta-metsola","32":"tag-sanctions","33":"tag-taiwan","34":"tag-tariffs","35":"tag-trade","36":"tag-united-states","37":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114424892904972899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61936","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=61936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}