China and Italy agreed to enhance cooperation in sustainable energy and energy efficiency improvement at the 2015 "Friends on the Silk Road" China-Italy Dialogue, which was held in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, on Thursday. Guo Yezhou, vice-minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, said that sustainable energy is an area......

The smooth development of China-EU relations is in the common interests of China and the European Union in the long run.
China and the EU work well with each other, especially in business and trade, even though they don't share the same political system, development stage or cultural background. On the global stage, China and the EU pursue a policy......

BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhua) -- A Foreign Ministry spokesperson has expressed China's sympathy for the victims of Tuesday's deadly crash by a Germanwings plane. "Upon learning about the tragic crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525, we express deep condolences to all the victims and sincere sympathy to their families," Hua Chunying said in a press releas......

ARTICLES1  The Changing Ideas and Policies: An Interpretation of the Social Policy of the UK Labour Party LIN Deshan  The Welfare State system established in the 1940s in the UK was a compromise among the UK's different political powers and ideas, which are always undergoing continuous changes. The ideas about equality, distribution and the role o......

How can we say a country is caught in a debt crisis or not? There is no definite definition. The former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi was reported to say that Italy did not have a debt crisis because restaurants in his country were filled with diners.    

Sadly, neither is there a well-recognized definition of resolving the European debt crisi......

The ongoing economic crisis that landed Europe in plight has definitely an impact on China in the following ten aspects, half of which are positive with the other half negative:First of all comes the negative ones:First, the current European economic crisis has not only increased the volatility and uncertainty of the world economy but also dragged ......

Greece, the first European country to fall into debt trouble, is faced with a painful decision on whether to stay in the euro zone. At present, the country is suffering the heavy blow of a triple crisis—sovereign debt, social problems and political uncertainty.There are no regulations on how a member country can leave the euro zone, and other memb......

In the cartoon, the troika of the IMF, the EU and the European Central Bank, are depicted as ruthless butchers: knives in hand, slicing meat off of the debt countries. "The solution is obvious," they say. "The patient needs more (fiscal) cuts!"Negative effects stemming from the fiscal cuts as demanded by the troika for Greece and other debt countri......

As of January 1, 2007, the European Union (EU) family has two new members-Bulgaria and Romania. Their entry marks the completion of the sixth enlargement of the EU, following on the heels of the accession of 10 countries, including Poland and the Czech Republic, in 2004. In March, the regional grouping will celebrate its 50th birthday. During the p......

When somebody is sick, say, with a high fever, the doctor needs to correctly diagnose the cause(s) of the illness before he can prescribe the right medicine. Otherwise, the patient may not recover. For many years the world economy has been sick with a symptom called imbalance. Some economists say that this imbalance resulted in the global financial......