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This article is from the June 2004 issue of EURObiz. Enthusiasm for China reverberated around the European institutions last month following Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Brussels. Premier Wen was accompanied by a business delegation with representatives from more than 160 Chinese companies, on his first visit to the Read more…

Over 30 foreign businesses in Nanjing turned up to the launch of the new Chapter of the European Chamber on 15th April, in what has been described by Chamber President Serge Janssens de Varebeke as “overwhelming support for this new Chapter”. In a move that will further strengthen the presence Read more…

This article is from February 2005 issue of EURObiz. The seventh EU-China Business Summit, with the central theme of “Translating Co-operation into Mutual Benefit,” was held on 9th December 2004, directly after the EU-China Political Summit. EU-China bilateral trade is expected to hit €198 billion (US$180 billion) in 2004, compared Read more…

The European Chamber’s annual Business Confidence Survey (BCS) was initiated in 2004. The survey data was initially included with the Chamber’s Position Paper. President Janssens said in his foreword: As the reputation of the Chamber and the influence of the Position Paper have grown each year, it is necessary to Read more…

President Ernst Behrens led a delegation of 7 people representing 6 working groups to visit Brussels on 19th and 20th March 2003 to present Position Paper. The delegation met with Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy, followed by a roundtable meeting with senior representatives of the European Commission Trade Directorate. “As well Read more…

Commissioner Pascal Lamy emphasized the importance of the European Chamber to Brussels recently, during a trip to Beijing. The Position Papers have “become a key and rather prominent tool for the Commission” he said in an address to members at the Sheraton Hotel. He also met with Prime Minister Wen Read more…

The European Commissioner for Trade Pascal Lamy made a one-day visit to Beijing on October 17 2002, his fifth to China as EU Trade Commissioner, and met with Chinese State Counsellor Wu Yi, Minister Shi Guangsheng and Minister Li from the General Administration of Quality Supervision. Inspection and Quarantine. Despite Read more…

In early 2002, member companies in the Petrochemical and Chemical Working Group reported the non-compliance of the Sino-Russian Border Trade Treaty with the WTO agreement, and expressed concern about the unfair competition that it was creating. The treaty has allowed Russian companies to import their products at half duty and Read more…

The Advisory Council was set up in 2003 by Ernst Behrens, then president of the European Chamber. He had made the council one of his priorities, announced in the annual general meeting for 2003. These were to: increase professionalism, improve representation of Chamber interests, and raise the Chamber’s profile. Our Read more…