China&#39;s needs could rescue European industry
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Good news has been in short supply for Europe&#39;s traditional industrial economies like Germany and France. Growth remains weak, unemployment high, labor markets are still rigid and the euro is soaring, pricing their exports out of the market.
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INDUSTRY is gearing up for a push to reform the European Union&#39;s sluggish markets and to boost the skills of Britain&#39;s workforce as hundreds of thousands of jobs are sucked away to Asia or Eastern Europe.
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China&#39;s demand that Europe lift its 15-year-old embargo on arms sales will receive a sympathetic hearing at today&#39;s EU-China summit in The Hague, despite fierce opposition from an unlikely alliance of human rights groups and the Bush administration.
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Beijing is pushing Chinese firms to establish a global presenceÂdespite the may risks that involves
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China&#39;s domestic demand remains strong but underlying inflationary pressures are limited. This reduces the possibility of further drastic macroeconomic measures to cool down the
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With no end in sight to the current credit crisis, Europe&#39;s finance chiefs have launched a drive to lift the shroud of opacity over the rarefied world of high finance, which they blame for the turmoil.
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It may be the factory to the world, but China's consumers aren't exactly splashing out. And credit cards are not widely accepted
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China and the European Union are making efforts to map out a new agreement, aimed at nailing down their strategic partnership into legal framework amid ever stronger political and economic relations.Comment
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Aided by a weak dollar, China is quietly entering the European auto market in the first test of rich markets by Chinese automakers
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A giant global producer, China is expanding its role as a consumer and, in the process, creating threats and opportunity.
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By Diao Ying  The Chinese Government is telling enterprises to prepare to meet the latest European Union regulations on chemical substances, another of many international standards that stifles China's manufacturing-heavy foreign trade.
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European Union economic commissioner Joaquin Almunia warned that the undervaluation of China's currency was an economic headache for Europe.
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The EU could seek free trade agreements with leading Asian economies as part of a radically revised trade policy.
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China, already a manufacturing  powerhouse, is flexing its financial muscles as companies based  there snatch up famous-name products from established companies  in the United States and Europe looking to divest low-margin  businesses.
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China's Small Industries Struggle to be Green (3) Meanwhile, for small industries, even if the entrepreneurs want to make their plants energy friendly by upgrading the technologies, getting loans from the bank is not easy.
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The European Union called on China at a summit to rein in its textile exports after international quotas are scrapped next year.
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Europeans accustomed to sneering at China as a producer of cheap shoddy goods must realize the world's most populous country is taking a great leap forward in the technology stakes, according to a new report that urges the EU to innovate or stagnate.