02/07/2026 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 30 June, the European Policy Centre (EPC) published its compendium concluding the second phase of the ‘EU & China Think Tank Exchanges’, financed by the European Union and launched in 2020. As part of this project, which brought together more than a thousand experts, five collections have been published, containing 60 articles and more than 700 policy recommendations on relations between the two blocs. Since 2020, “the context of EU–China relations has changed dramatically. While cooperation with China continues to offer significant opportunities, it also presents growing challenges,” note the authors of the compendium. According to them, it is still difficult to determine whether the tensions of recent years between the EU and Beijing “are part of a difficult adjustment to a new equilibrium or the first signs of a deeper rupture to come.” See the compendium: https://aeur.eu/f/moq (JV)