The Australian government should not concede to EU pressure to protect dozens of food and wine names and instead should push for some,like feta,to be recognised as generics.
The EU will soon reconsider an investment agreement with Beijing that has been on ice for two years. In reality,it will be a reappraisal of Europe’s relationship with China.
China’s envoy in France had sparked outrage across Europe after saying that Baltic states had no status as sovereign nations.
A deluge of Western sanctions has fallen on Russia’s elite. How are its billionaires fighting to get their money (and yachts) back? And how are investigators following the money?
US President Joe Biden earlier met separately with the leaders of the five parties that made up the pact,stressing a resumption as part of the peace deal.
Experts ask whether the EU bloc of 27 countries can become the “third superpower” that Macron says he hopes to build within “a few years”.
By previous standards,Beijing’s reaction to the Taiwanese president’s unprecedented meeting on US soil with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been muted.
The US and Europe will lose from the fragmentation and redirection of global investment flows,but less developed economies and China will suffer even more,the IMF says.
French officials have sensed a special warmth from China ahead of the French president’s visit,and say preparations have been smoother and friendlier than before.
The party of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has derided “Anglomania” in a bill proposing fines of up to $160,000 for the use of foreign terms.
The European Commission’s head says the Chinese Communist Party is seeking to make the world – including Russia – dependent on China.