European companies still have a stronger foothold in China's growing clean technology market than their American counterparts, according to Xiaomei Tan, China expert at the World Resources Institute (WRI).

EU and China have complementary assets to team up and push the world economic governance in the right direction, but they first have to tame each other, said former EU Ambassador Paul Trân Van Thinh in an interview with EurActiv, as China prepared to discuss a bailout package for the euro at the G20 in Cannes. More »

China cannot afford to have Europe fail: If help is needed, help will be considered through the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but the priority remains to finalise the IMF quotas reform, Xie Duo, a senior official at the People’s Bank of China, said in an interview with EurActiv. More »

China is nervous about its decision to buy European bonds to alleviate the sovereign debt crisis, and is linking it to the country's continued support for reforming global governance in its favour, EurActiv has learned. More »

In the wake of last week's cyber-fraud on the world's carbon market, a senior EU official has told EurActiv that of all threats to Europe's energy supply, cyber-attacks are "probably the most to be feared".

The Us Treasury Secretary has difficult meetings this week with China. Getting the US/China relationship right is crucial to world economic progress. Somehow both sides need to move. The US needs to export more and import less, to save more and borrow less. China needs to import more and

The Czech labour market was hit hard by the economic crisis and the new government will need to implement key reforms if the country is to achieve its employment target under the 'Europe 2020' strategy. EurActiv.cz reports from Prague.

This is the moment I’ve been waiting for – China moving in to the chaos and snapping up the giants of Western capitalism. Bloomberg reports that Wachiova Corp may be buying half of Morgan Stanley. The Gulf States got burned by using their sovereign wealth funds to take a chunk of Citibank when the bear market still had plenty to go. I suspected China would wait until the market bottome...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is expected to downgrade the H1N1 influenza pandemic when its emergency committee meets later this month, WHO Regional Director for Europe Zsuzsanna Jakab told EurActiv in an interview.

Stavros Dimas, the EU's environment commissioner, says Europe is looking forward to seeing the details of US climate change legislation in order to assess whether it meets the "comparability test" with the EU. He spoke to EurActiv on the sidelines of this week's European Business Summit in Brussels.