At a plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday 8 July, MEPs called on the European Commission to seize the opportunity presented by the EU-China summit at the end of July to recalibrate bilateral relations. In particular, the European Union must no longer be strategically dependent on Chinese exports of critical raw materials, according to MEPs.
At the start of the debate, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, explained that she would be taking the message to the...