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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8897

26 February 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/china
Market economy status, textile exports, arms embargo and exchange system: Peter Mandelson calls for new efforts from Beijing

Brussels, 25/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - Speaking to students of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, as part of his visit to China, the European Commissioner for Trade, Peter Mandelson, said on Thursday that China had to offer more in return to get the arms embargo lifted and its market economy status. Implicitly linking a lifting of the embargo with the issue of human rights, he also stressed the need to step up the protection of intellectual property and...

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