Policy Paper 85

Comment promouvoir les intérêts économiques européens en Chine ?

Jonas Parello-Plesner, Senior Policy Fellow, European Centre for Foreign Relations (ECFR) and Agatha Kratz, Research Fellow for Asia Centre, for ECFR ? There are many areas in which the EU tries and wishes to promote its interests with a rising and increasingly powerful China. In the diplomatic field, for example, the EU has tried to include China on a number of fronts, with various degrees of success. Among these efforts are the EU’s attempt to involve China further in the resolution of the Syrian conflict, or the EU’s push for a firmer attitude from China on nuclear anti-proliferation, especially with regards to Iran and North Korea.
Nevertheless, as China and the EU grow increasingly dependent economically, economic interests have taken the lead, and are now central to EU action. At a time of economic hardship, especially in Europe, economic and financial issues matter more than ever, and Europe needs to redefine its strategy in order to promote its interests with China and ensure that both parties benefit from an increasingly close and diversified relationship.

Disponible en anglais uniquement

Ce Policy
Paper est une contribution de Agatha Kratz and Jonas Parello-Plesner (ECFR) au
projet Think Global – Act European (TGAE). Thinking Strategically
about the EU’s external action
dirigé par Notre Europe – Institut
Jacques Delors
(rapport disponible en mai 2013, dir. Elvire Fabry,
Chercheur Senior, Notre Europe – Institut Jacques Delors).

There are many areas in which the EU tries and wishes
to promote its interests with a rising and increasingly powerful China. In the
diplomatic field, for example, the EU has tried to include China on a number of
fronts, with various degrees of success. Among these efforts are the EU’s
attempt to involve China further in the resolution of the Syrian conflict, or
the EU’s push for a firmer attitude from China on nuclear anti-proliferation,
especially with regards to Iran and North Korea.

Nevertheless, as China and the EU grow increasingly
dependent economically, economic interests have taken the lead, and are now
central to EU action. At a time of economic hardship, especially in Europe,
economic and financial issues matter more than ever, and Europe needs to
redefine its strategy in order to promote its interests with China and ensure
that both parties benefit from an increasingly close and diversified
relationship.

Avant la
publication du rapport final présentant les recommandations clés des 16 think tanks mobilisés dans ce projet, 5 séries
de Policy Papers portent sur les sujets suivants : Politiques économiques, Migration, Voisinage de l’UE, PSDC,Ressources stratégiques.

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fait partie de la série intitulée «Comment mieux promouvoir les intérêts économiques européens à travers le monde ?» qui
comprend les contributions de John Springford (Centre for European
Reform), Richard Youngs (FRIDE), Pawel Swieboda
(demosEuropa) , Daniela Schwarzer (SWP), Federico Steinberg (Elcano),
Diego Valiante (CEPS),Yiannis Tirkides ( CCEIA), Filippa Chatzistavrou
and Dimitris Katsikas (ELIAMEP).

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