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Brussels seeks 'credible' outcome in EU-China talks after key negotiators’ call

EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič will travel to Beijing on 8–9 October, seeking assurances from China that it will curb exports to the EU and extend the truce on rare earth exports.

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Watch: European Commissioners react to Ursula von der Leyen's speech

After Ursula von der Leyen's annual State of the Union speech, Euronews spoke to Commissioners Valdis Dombrovskis, Maroš Šefčovič, Wopke Hoekstra and Andrius Kubilius about what to expect following the President's address.

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Brussels will not mediate between US and Canada, EU trade chief says

Maroš Šefčovič said the Commission is ready to explore a wide range of options to deepen cooperation with Ottawa as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls for a closer partnership with the EU.

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Europe jolted by the Kremlin’s ‘hybrid’ escalation

Hello from Brussels. I’m Mared Gwyn. Today, we bring you an exclusive sit-down interview with the EU’s trade chief on his quest to rein in the EU’s ballooning trade deficit with Beijing. But we start with the escalating tensions between Europe and Moscow.

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China must deliver concrete results by October or face ‘harsher measures’, EU trade chief tells Euronews

Šefčovič tells Euronews that talks to rebalance a surging trade deficit are “super political”, as European leaders look for clear pledges from Beijing.

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Europe Today: EU foreign ministers meet as Germany attributes drone attack to Russia

EU foreign ministers are meeting today in Ireland following Berlin's decision yesterday to attribute a drone incident in the country to Russia. Also on the show: EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič speaks exclusively to Euronews and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres asks world leaders to end all wars.

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Euronews exclusive: EU officials to travel to China as October deadline for trade rebalancing looms

Beijing and Brussels are at loggerheads after China barred its companies from cooperating with the European Commission in antitrust investigations. EU officials will travel to China in the coming days.

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Time is running out: what trade concessions can the EU win from China?

With an October deadline unlikely to yield major concessions from Beijing given structural and leverage imbalances, EU-China trade tensions look set to keep escalating.

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Gibraltar’s new era as border fence with Spain is finally removed

Move comes after years of post-Brexit wrangling

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EU to probe Chinese Pekin duck imports as market-flooding row hots up

Trade negotiations launched last week between Brussels and Beijing could be disrupted by an EU investigation into Chinese Pekin duck producers, following a complaint by EU farmers that cheap imports of Chinese poultry are harming their industry.

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EU will retaliate if China misses October trade deadline, von der Leyen says

"We are basically prepared for everything, and we have all the instruments on the table," Ursula von der Leyen said, hinting at retaliation against China. The EU has imposed an October deadline to secure tangible results.

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EU issues new steel, e-commerce regulations to reduce trade imbalance with China

The European Union has introduced new measures to protect its steel industry and curb e-commerce imports from China, aiming to address a significant trade imbalance.

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EU issues new steel and e-commerce regulations to reduce trade imbalance with China

The European Union has introduced two measures to protect its steel industry and limit small e-commerce parcels

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Newsletter: EU-Turkey relations in spotlight ahead of NATO summit

Also in this newsletter: Brussels sets autumn deadline for progress on rebalancing China trade; and European Investment Bank (EIB) President Nadia Calviño speaks to Europe Today about Europe's competitiveness.

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EU sets up three months of talks with China over €360bn trade deficit

Two sides agree to try to make bilateral relationship ‘more balanced’ after weeks of threats

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EU sets October deadline to get 'tangible' results with China

As EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič met his Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao in Brussels on Monday, he said he would travel to China this autumn. Germany’s trade Minister Katherina Reiche also met Wentao, with her ministry calling on Beijing to ensure “a level playing field".

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Germany’s proposal to ease trade tensions with China has not gone down well in Beijing

Trade tensions between the EU and China are deepening. On June 16, the EU’s trade chief, Maroš Šefčovič, said the bloc’s unbalanced trade relationship with China “had reached a point that requires a reset”. The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, then criticised Beijing days later for what he claimed were its…

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Kazakhstan signs €10bn in deals with Europe as Tokayev wraps Brussels visit

During President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's visit to Brussels, strategic documents were signed with the EU, and 30 commercial deals were concluded with EU companies, with the EU being the Central Asian country's largest trading and investment partner.

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Trade commissioner pledges ‘new tool’ to diversify suppliers and cut reliance on China

The European Commission is preparing a new tool to curb the bloc's dependence on China, with Trade Chief Maroš Šefčovič saying on Friday that companies could be required to source from at least three different suppliers.

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UK-EU ‘reset’ summit may still happen next month despite delay speculation

EU’s Maroš Šefčovič says summit will ‘probably’ be next month but sources say it could be put back as talks deadlocked

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Newsletter: Bust to boom? Europe’s most exclusive club might be getting bigger

Dozens of European leaders and heads of state from the six Western Balkan countries will be in Montenegro on Friday for talks about how to grow the European Union. Also in the newsletter: how Europe balances trade with the US and China.

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UK to challenge EU over ‘devastating’ plans to almost halve tariff-free steel import quotas

Business secretary to meet European counterpart on Friday as EU industry leaders worry about retaliatory measures by UK

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Newsletter: The moving pieces of the EU’s enlargement

Also in this newsletter: The EU's trade chief to meet his Chinese counterpart in Paris amid escalating trade tensions; and Europe Today speaks exclusively to Lebanese culture minister Ghassan Salamé after Israel and Lebanon agreed a conditional ceasefire overnight.

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‘We will not be bullied’: MEPs dig in over delayed US trade deal

Nine months after the EU and US struck a controversial trade deal, negotiations remain deadlocked as MEPs resist pressure to fast-track approval without safeguards against future American threats.

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EU trade chief urges US to ‘swiftly’ restore 15% tariff arrangement

EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič met US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer ahead of what is expected to be a tense round of negotiations between EU countries and MEPs over the implementation of the EU-US trade deal, as Washington pushes the EU to rapidly eliminate tariffs on US goods.

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