Brussels, 23/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - Adopted by a wide majority by the European Parliament's International Trade Committee on 21 January 2009, the report by Dutch EPP-ED MEP Corien Wortmann-Kool on the EU's economic and trade relations with China, which became the EU's second largest trading partner in 2007, urges Beijing to open up its markets to a greater extent and pass binding legislation on human rights, the environment, sustainable development and social issues.
The introduction to...