CCG holds seminar with EPC on China-EU Relations
On March 22, 2023, the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and the Europe Policy Center (EPC) held a joint seminar online titled “EU-China Political and Economic Relations in 2023”.
Participants from China and the EU discussed the Russia-Ukraine conflict, China-EU relations, as well as trade and investment. They also shared their opinions on global economic governance and EU-China business relations.
The first half of the panel was moderated by Shada Islam, a Senior Advisor at EPC and Noah Barkin, a senior advisor in China Practice of the Rhodium Group and visiting senior fellow from the Indo-Pacific Program at GMF, who provided opening remarks, focusing on the outlook on EU-China relations in 2023.
The second half of the panel was moderated by EPC’s lead digital policy analyst, Andrea G. Rodriguez, who was joined by Weinian Hu, a research fellow at Vrije University Belgium. Opening remarks for this half were given by Fabian Zuleeg, chief executive and chief economist at EPC, CCG President Wang Huiyao, Linlin Liang, Director of Communication and Research at the China Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (CCCEU) and Adam Dunnet, Secretary-General of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC).
This event was part of the EU & China Think-Tank Exchanges Project, conducted in partnership with CCG. The project aims to strengthen and stimulate open and frank conversation between think tanks and research institutes across China and the EU, and promote mutual understanding and joint actions in relevant policy areas.
More than 40 experts participated in the seminar, including:
Ines Arco Escriche, Research fellow of Barcelona Centre for International Affairs;
Ricardo Borges de Castro, Associate Director and Head of the EPC’s Europe in the World Programme;
David Blair, CCG Vice President and Senior Economist;
Patrizia Cogo Morales, Project Officer at the Centre for Security in Diplomacy and Strategy of the Brussels School of Governance and Project Manager and Research Assistant at the Elcano Royal Institute;
Sacha Courtial, Assistant to Pascal Lamy’s office at the Jacques Delors Institute;
Victor De Decker, Research Fellow at the Egmont Institute;
Bart Dessein, Senior Associate Fellow at the Egmont Institute and Professor at Ghent University;
Ivano di Carlo, EPC Policy Analyst;
Alice Ekman, Senior Analyst at the European Union Institute for Security Studies;
Filippo Fasulo, co-Head of the Geoeconomics Centre at the Instituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale;
Lin Goethals, Director of the European Institute for Asian Studies;
Evin Jongen-Fay, EPC Programme Assistant;
Marc Julienne, Head of China Research at the Centre for Asian Studies of the French Institute of International Relations;
Jian Junbo, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Center for China-Europe Relations at Fudan University and Under-Secretary General of the Shanghai Institute for European Studies and board member at the Chinese Association for European Studies;
Michalis Kontos, Assistant Professor at the University of Nicosia;
Philippe Lausberg, EPC Policy Analyst;
Yang Li, Executive Director of the Institute for China-Europe Studies;
Veronica Liu, CCG Research Fellow;
Mabel Miao Lu, CCG Secretary-General;
Miguel Otero-Iglesias, Senior Analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute and Professor of the IE School of Global and Public Affairs;
Luke Patey, Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies; Amanda Paul, EPC Senior Policy Analyst;
Georg Riekeles, Associate Director and Head of Europe’s Political Economy programme at EPC;
Tim Rühlig, Senior Research Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations;
Matthias Stepan, Research Associate at Ruhr-Universität Bochum;
Ann Tang, CCG Deputy Secretary-General;
Raquel Vaz-Pinto, Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Asian Studies and Guest Professor at NOVA University of Lisbon;
Zichen Wang, CCG Research Fellow
Jiajun Wen, Senior Fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies of Renmin University of China;
Damian Wnukowski, Analyst and Coordinator for the Asia-Pacific Programme at the Polish Institute of International Affairs;
Jinlian Zhen, Vice President of Research at CCG
Federica Zizzi, EPC Programme Assistant.
