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Claims that the EU is exercising 'strategic autonomy' amount to "shooting yourself in the foot autonomously".
#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti MEP on how the EU-China #CAI investment deal will increase Europe's strategic dependency on China.
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"Ratification of the agreement while mounting evidence documents forced labour and other human rights abuses in Xinjiang would be a major propaganda victory for the Chinese government."
#IPAC 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 MEP @EnginEroglu_FW on EU-China #CAI investment deal.
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#IPAC 🇧🇪 co-chairs @ElsVanHoofcdenv @SamuelCogolati led questioning of Foreign Minister @Sophie_Wilmes on EU-China #CAI investment deal.
Concerns include China's access to EU energy and telecommunications markets and China's failure to ratify ILO conventions on forced labour.
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Resolution on Hong Kong co-authored by #IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @MiriamMLex passes European Parliament.
The resolution states that the EU's rush to conclude EU-China #CAI investment deal risks "undermining its credibility as a global human rights actor."
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Great thread on the e background info of #CAI. Must keep an eye on it. twitter.com/EU_FOR_YOU/sta…
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EU-China investment deal lacks teeth on forced labour but could still be derailed | Taiwan News
#IPAC co-chairs Sen. @AndreGattolin 🇫🇷 and @bueti MEP 🇪🇺🇩🇪 call criticise signing of EU-China #CAI deal in light of China's "blatant human rights violations".
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European Parliamentarians set to pass resolution criticising European Commission for concluding EU-China #CAI investment deal while perpetrating human rights abuses in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet. twitter.com/bueti/status/1…
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"To lay such a Christmas present under Xi Jinping's Christmas tree after the year that we've had with China, that is quite a stretch"
#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti MEP gives interview on EU-China #CAI investment deal.
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti MEP on EU-China #CAI investment deal:
"When it comes to forced labour in China, the EU Commission is satisfied with superficial lip service."
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"#CAI makes the playing field less unlevel but, at the same time, it affirms an asymmetric investment environment that strongly favours China.
Seen in a larger picture, the small gains achieved by the CAI are not worth the opportunity loss it causes."
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#IPAC 🇫🇷 co-chair Sen. @AndreGattolin on EU-China #CAI investment deal:
"It's hard to see how these gains outweigh the blatant human rights violations in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet and against Taiwan, and the political cost of condoning such actions."
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"Ignoring those concerns, Germany and France rammed through the deal, seemingly with little regard for the EU’s self-proclaimed commitment to freedom and human rights."
#IPAC advisor @benedictrogers writes for CapX on EU-China #CAI investment deal.
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BREAKING: #IPAC 🇪🇺 MEPs slam EU-China #CAI investment deal after arrest of over 50 Hong Kong activists. [THREAD]
Former Belgian Prime Minister and IPAC member @guyverhofstadt MEP says the EP will "never ratify" #CAI until human rights situation improves.
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BREAKING: #IPAC 🇪🇺 MEPs slam EU-China #CAI investment deal after arrest of over 50 Hong Kong activists. [THREAD]
Former Belgian Prime Minister and IPAC member @guyverhofstadt MEP says the EP will "never ratify" #CAI until human rights situation improves.
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"The signing of the EU-China #CAI Investment Treaty as Europe struggles to deal with the economic fallout of COVID-19, risks even more strategic industries and infrastructure falling into the hands of Chinese state-owned enterprises."
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Coverage of concerns raised by #IPAC 🇩🇪 co-chair @MargareteBause MdB on the EU-China #CAI investment deal, including China's failure to ratify ILO standards on forced labour and breaches of treaty obligations to Hong Kong.
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Europe has handed China a strategic victory | Financial Times
Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair Reinhard Bütikofer MEP @bueti on EU-China #CAI investment deal:
“We’ve allowed China to drive a huge wedge between the US and Europe.”
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#IPAC 🇮🇹 member and Vice-President of Italy's Foreign Affairs Committee @PaoloFormentin1 addresses the Italian Parliament questioning attempts to rush through the EU-China #CAI investment deal. twitter.com/LauraHarth/sta…