EU wants 'robust' defence against China trade imbalance

Press quote (France 24)
29 May 2026

"The main thing is Europe has an arsenal of trade instruments at its disposal already. What's missing is a lack of political will to deploy them," said Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform (CER) think-tank.

CER's Tordoir, however, believed there was a "shift ongoing" in Berlin.