BEIJING -- Top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo pledged Tuesday to enhance mutual trust and cooperation with Germany."China and Germany are facing both severe challenges and opportunities for cooperation amid the current international situation," Wu told Jens Bohrnsen, president of the German Bundesrat, or federal council.During their meeting at the G......

BRUSSELS - China expected France to take new steps in pushing the European Union (EU) for positive policies toward China, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Monday.The relations between China and France were of important influence to China's links with the EU, said Wen during a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the sidelines of an As......

（Prof. Emil J. Kirchner is Jean Monnet Chair, Co-ordinator of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, and Associate Editor of the Journal of European Integration, Department of Government, University of Essex, UK.）
Q: How would you comment on the current China-EU relations? What are the major problems of this relationship?  What should be......

(Omar Serrano is a senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Lucerne. He is currently a visiting scholar at IU Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business (RCCPB) in Beijing China.)
Q: You have published a book titled “The Domestic Sources of European Foreign Policy:Defence and Enlargement”.  Can you please say a few words about ......

(Thomas Christiansen is Jean Monnet Professor of European Institutional Politics, and Co-Director of the Maastricht Centre for European Governance, Maastricht University.)
Q: What is your understanding of the so-called comprehensive strategic partnership?
A: Many observers have questioned to what extent there is actually a strategy behind the EU's......

Prof. Li Qiang is the Professor on Political Theory at the Peking University. Concurrently, he is also the head of the Office of Humanities and Social Sciencse at the university.
 
 
Q: Over the past one or two decades since WWII, what are the key factors that have a major impact on European politics?  
A： I think the most significant event happe......

VIENNA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Analysts from Bank Austria are expecting an economic growth of 2.9 percent in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in 2013, the bank said on Monday.The growth rate is lower than the previous estimate of 3.1 percent but higher than the 2012 figure of 2.5 percent, largely be driven by stronger external demand, low interest rate......

BRUSSELS - China's Hainan Airlines is starting to build a five-star hotel in this Belgian capital with a total investment of 50 million euros ($65.8 million). A ceremony to mark the groundbreaking was held on Monday, and completion is targeted for mid-2013. The move came after the airline was ranked as one of the world's five safest in 2011. "We ha......

Beijing – European luxury brands may be all smiles as the weakening euro gives them opportunities to increase prices, said industry insiders.The luxury sector could be a big potential winner of a falling euro which makes price rises possible to preserve brand value, said a recent report by World Luxury Association (WLA)."Hiking prices is a common ......

ROME, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Over the past 35 years, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has been active in raising fund, promoting global agricultural cooperation, supporting grain production in developing countries and improving nutrition for the poor, Chinese Vice Premier Hui Langyu said here on Wednesday.Attending the opening ce......