Category: Economic Security
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China’s Rare Earths Curbs Push Europe to Find New Sources
Stuttgart: Europe’s carmakers and defence firms are hunting for new supplies of rare earths after…
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Europe’s Economic Security Now Depends on Tokyo and Seoul Too
Osaka: Europe used to treat Japan and South Korea as two separate trade files, handled…
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China’s Wind Turbines Test Europe’s Subsidy Rules
Brussels: Europe wants far more wind power, and it wants that power without handing China…
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Foreign Takeovers Face a Tougher Single Investment Screening Net
Prague: A Czech machine-tool maker or a Baltic chip designer that catches the eye of…
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Japan and Europe Bind Their Supply Chains Against Coercion
Tokyo: When Japanese and European leaders launched their Competitiveness Alliance at last year’s summit, critics…
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Taiwan Holds the Chips Europe Cannot Make at Home
Taipei: Europe’s ambition to secure its own supply of advanced chips runs, for now, straight…
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Japan and Europe Turn Economic Security Into a Joint Project
Tokyo: For years Europe and Japan sold each other cars and machine tools and called…
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Nickel Sits at the Heart of Europe’s Indonesia Trade Push
Jakarta: When the European Commission unveiled its proposals for a trade pact with Indonesia at…
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China Cuts Off Rare Earths to Fourteen European Firms
Brussels: China has folded rare earths into its foreign-policy toolkit, and Europe now feels the…
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Exporting Firms Face a Fresh Review of the EU Export Controls
Stuttgart: Europe’s export controls are heading back to the drawing board, and the companies that…
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Europe Shuts Chinese Firms Out of Its Medical Device Tenders
Lyon: A quiet administrative court in France has just shown Europe how sharp its newest…
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Are Device Makers Ready for Europe’s Cyber Deadline
Athens: From the offices of the Union’s cybersecurity agency, officials are counting down to a…
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Can Digital Trade Bind Europe and Korea More Tightly
Seoul: When European and Korean leaders met in Brussels on 10 June 2026, they signed…
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Mandatory Screening Becomes the Core of EU Economic Security
Brussels: The European Union has placed economic security at the heart of its investment rules,…
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Europe Still Waits for China to Ease Its Rare-Earth Grip
Beijing: China has loosened its hold on the minerals that Europe’s factories cannot do without,…
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Europe’s Carbon Border Levy Enters Its Real Test
Duisburg: The European Union’s carbon border adjustment mechanism left its trial run behind on 1…
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Why Armenia Is Quietly Rewiring Its Trade Away From Russia
Yerevan: For most of its independent history Armenia routed its trade, its energy and its…
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Dual-Use Export Controls Face Their First Full Health Check
Hamburg: The rules that decide which sensitive goods can leave Europe are heading in for…
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Rare Earths Push Europe and China Into a Standing Dialogue
Shanghai: Europe’s reliance on a single supplier for the metals that turn its electric motors,…
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A New Rulebook Puts Foreign Investment Under Tighter EU Checks
Brussels: The European Union has rewritten the way it polices foreign investment, adopting a tougher…
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Europe’s New Investment Screening Rules Take Hold
Brussels: A quiet revolution in how Europe polices foreign money reached its decisive phase this…
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China’s New Rare Earth Rules Tighten the Screws on Europe
Brussels: China has quietly upgraded the machinery behind its rare earth export controls, and European…
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Central Asia Emerges as Europe’s Mineral Hedge Against China
Astana: Europe has spent two years learning that its green and digital ambitions run through…
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Vietnam Becomes Europe’s Newest Bet on Supply Chain Security
Hanoi: When European Council President Antonio Costa flew into Hanoi in January to upgrade relations…