Ședințe ordinare

Meeting of 21 March 2024

The last ordinary meeting of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (D-CN) before the 2024 European Parliament elections took place on Thursday 21 March 2024 at 17.00-18.30 in Brussels.

As main topic on the draft agenda there was an exchange of views on EU-China Relations: Past and Future Perspectives with:

  • Ms Alicia García Herrero, Senior Research Fellow, Bruegel;
  • Mr Gunnar Wiegand, Visiting Distinguished Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF);
  • Mr Francois Chimits, Analyst, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS);
  • Mr Antoine Bondaz, China Fellow, DG IDEA, European Commission; and
  • Ms Janka Oertel, Director of Asia programme, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)

Meeting of 20 March 2024 in association with AFET

A meeting of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (D-CN) in association with the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) was held on Wednesday 20 March 2024 at 15.30-16.30 with an exchange of views on the Prospects of EU-Taiwan relations following the 13 January 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections on the agenda.

This meeting was held in camera.

Meeting of 13 December 2023

An ordinary meeting of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (D-CN) took place on Wednesday 13 December 2023 at 15.00-16.30 in Strasbourg.

As main topic on the draft agenda there was an exchange of views with Niclas Kvarnström, newly appointed Managing Director for Asia and the Pacific, EEAS.

The meeting was held in camera.

Meeting of 18 October 2023

An ordinary meeting of the China Delegation (D-CN) was held on Wednesday 18 October 2023 in Strasbourg.

The main Item on the agenda was an exchange of views on China's economic situation since the end of Covid-19 measures with

  • Mr Jens Eskelund, President of the Executive Committee, European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC)
  • Mr François Godement, Special Advisor, Asia and America, Institut Montaigne

The meeting was webstreamed and can be followed on: EP Live

Meeting of 13 September 2023 jointly with D-US Delegation

The China Delegation (D-CN) held an ordinary meeting jointly with the United States Delegation (D-US) on Wednesday 13 September 2023 in Strasbourg.

The main Item on the agenda was an exchange of views with:

  • Ryan Hass, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution, and
  • Jude Blanchette, Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
on US policy towards China and the transatlantic approach to future relations with China.

Meeting of 12 July 2023

The China Delegation (D-CN) held an ordinary meeting on Wednesday 12 July 2023 in Strasbourg.

At this meeting, a re-election of the 2nd Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (D-CN) took place and MEP Pernille WEISS (EPP, DK) was elected by acclamation as the China Delegation 2nd Vice-Chair.

Meeting of 22 May 2023

An ordinary meeting of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (D-CN) took place on Monday 22 May 2023 at 16.00-17.30 in Brussels.

As main topic on the draft agenda there was an exchange of views on the outcome of the 2023 National People's Congress of China with

  • Dr Mathieu Duchâtel, Director of International Studies, Institut Montaigne, Paris, and
  • Mr Nis Grünberg, Lead Analyst, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin

The meeting was webstreamed and the recording can be followed on: EP Live.

Meeting of 21 March 2023 in association with DROI

A meeting of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (D-CN) in association with the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) took place on Tuesday 21 March 2023 at 9.00-10.00 with a debriefing of the 38th session of the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue held on 17 February 2023 on the agenda.

This meeting was held in camera.

Meeting of 6 March 2023

An ordinary meeting of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (D-CN) took place on Monday 6 March 2023 at 15.00-16.30.

As main topic on the draft agenda there was an exchange of views on current developments in the Tibet Autonomous Region in the presence of:
  • Ms Rigzin C. Genkhang, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the EU, Western Europe and the Maghreb, Bureau du Tibet, Brussels
  • Professor Andrew M. Fischer, Professor of Inequality, Social Protection and Development, Institute of Social Studies (The Hague), part of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS)
  • Professor Michael van Walt van Praag, Executive President of Kreddha and Senior Fellow at the Sompong Sucharitkul Center for Advanced International Legal Studies, Golden Gate University Law School, San Francisco

The meeting was webstreamed and the recording can be followed on: EP Live.

Meeting of 1 March 2023 in association with SEDE

Meeting of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (D-CN) in association with the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) took place on Wednesday 1 March 2023 at 14.30-16.00 with a public hearing on "Growing military cooperation between Russia and China".

The hearing was webstreamed and can be followed on: EP Live