#15 IULIU WINKLER: Open Strategic Autonomy and EU-China Relations - Is Trade a Panacea?

EU-China Podcast

In today’s episode, we discuss EU’s diversification of supply chains, the idea of change-through-trade and the new buzzword that you can hear all over Brussels - the open strategic autonomy. All this sheds some light on topics that can we expect to come up in EU discussions on China in the coming months.

Iuliu Winkler is an MEP from EPP Group, the Vice-Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade, within which he is the rapporteur on China, and also a member of the EP’s delegation for relations with the PRC. Prior to becoming an MEP, Mr. Winkler was Communications Minister as well as Minister-Delegate for Trade (Head of Foreign Trade Department) in Romania.

Written version coming to: euchinahub.com