The European Union is debating whether to drop a sensitive trade investigation against China over alleged coercive activity targeting Lithuania, a prospect that’s frustrated officials in Washington, where the incoming Trump team sees it as capitulation to Beijing.

It was just past 11 on a freezing December morning on the outskirts of Brussels, but already workers at the city's Audi factory were cracking open frosty cans of beer. They had just finished a long night shift - not on one of the production lines at a plant that has produced 8 million cars since 1949,

China said on Thursday it would apply provisional duties on imports of industrial plastics from the United States, European Union, Japan and Taiwan after a months-long anti-dumping investigation.

With the China-EU relationship entering its 50th year and US president-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House on January 20, how Europe's China policy will evolve has garnered great attention.

European Union companies could become more competitive against their U.S. and Chinese rivals if they paid less for energy -- a goal governments could achieve by cooperating to invest and to integrate the EU's fragmented energy market,

An EU investigation has found discrimination against European companies in China's public procurement market for medical devices, opening up a new front in the bilateral trade dispute. A report published on Tuesday found "clear evidence of China limiting the access of EU medical devices producers to its government contracts in an unfair and discriminatory way".

If no solution is found through discussions with China, the EU could impose its own restrictions on Chinese access to EU government contracts, it said. The European Commission, th

Attacks on underwater cables in strategic areas connecting telecommunication lines and power sources in Asia and Europe are suspected to be coordinated attacks by China and Russia.

VCG. China hopes the EU can work with China in the same direction, honor its commitment to open market and the principle of fair competition, observe WTO rules, pro

Greece’s Metlen Energy & Metals SA will invest about €296 million ($304 million) in the European Union’s first gallium production line, as China’s ban on exports of the critical mineral to the US encourages Western nations to seek their own supplies.

This cycle, however, has worn away trust and confidence in the US’s reliability as a partner and ally. Add a heavy dose of arrogance and insult, and the damage caused by the next era of American wolf warrior diplomacy could be permanent.

BRUSSELS—President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff warnings are forcing Europe to confront an unwanted trade-off: Keep its own tariffs low and shoulder the economic costs, or throw up new barriers in a bid to protect vulnerable industries.