Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation

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This is a crucial moment for China-EU relations. Faced with numerous global challenges, the US, EU and China have a central role to play, and the quality of cooperation between them is central to world economic recovery. China is changing rapidly and is renewing both its development model and role in global economic governance. The EU will have to cope with these welcome changes. Decisions taken now by Europe will have future repercussions on how EU-China relations are framed and also on the global order.

Despite the numerous channels of bilateral cooperation between China and the EU, there is a serious gap in knowledge and perception between China and Europe. This gap may even been widening as China is changing rapidly as its role in the international system. The Madariaga-College of Europe Foundation's programme on 'EU-China Relations' aims precisely at enhancing mutual understanding through seminars, conferences and publications bringing together Chinese and European perspectives to foster greater cultural and political exchange, whilst also integrating US' counterparts within its planned activities.

To fulfill these objectives the Madariaga Foundation organises seminars and conferences on different topics of common interest, such as economic regulation, climate change and the environment, commerce and the development of Africa.

Partners:

The Mission of the People's Republic of China in Brussels and the College of Europe - InBev Baillet Latour Chair.

News:

Speech by Pierre Defraigne on "How does the EU Cope with the Crisis? What Conseguences for China?" delivered to the Institute for European Studies, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), Beijing, 22 July 2010. Please follow the link to read the speech.

Past Events:

26 July 2010: Meeting on The State of Play of EU-China Relations 35 Years After Their Establishment with the presence of Mr Chen Baosheng, Vice Chairman of China Reform Forum (CRF) and Vice President of the Central Party School, Professor Zhou Hong, Vice Chairman of CRF and Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Professor Zhang Zhongjun, Deputy Director of the General Office at the Central Party School, Mr. Weng Xudong, Secretary General of CRF and Mr. Wu Yaokun, Director of the Department of Academic Initiatives at CRF. Organised in cooperation with the InBev-Baillet Latour Chair at the College of Europe.  Read More

16 June 2010: Roundtable on Future Financial and Monetary Integration in East Asia: How Deep and What Shape? with the participation of Professor Li Quingyun, School of Economics, Peking University and Counselor of the Chinese State Council and Mr. Moreno Bertoldi, Head of Unit at the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission. Read more

6 and 7 May 2010: Conference on China, the European Union and the Restructuring of Global Governance. This Conference  analyzed to what extent China and the EU share the same perception of the global governance crisis. Could they converge on cooperative solutions on finance, economy, trade, climate, energy and security related matters? How can potentially different views about the reorganisation of global governance be reconcilied? Read more

For the speakers' presentations, please visit the webpage http://www.iee-fusl.eu/349.html 

26 March 2010: Lunchtime Roundtable on China -Russia Relations and their Implications for the European Union. The roundtable will benefit from the participation of Professor Feng Shaolei, Dean of Advanced International and Area Studies (SAIAS) and Director of the Center for Russian Studies at the East China Normal University. Read more

3 February 2010 : Roundtable on "The historical and cultural sources of Chinese foreign policy", with the participation of Professor Ge Jiangxiong from the Institute of Chinese Historical Geography, Center for Historical Geography Studies at Fudan University and Director of the Fudan University Library and Professor Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Professor of Sinology at the Department for East Asian Studies and Vice Dean of the Faculty for Philological and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna.

3 and 4 December 2009:  Conference "China 2009: State of the Art", organized in connection with the Europalia festival by the Agence Wallone à l'Exportation et aux Investissements étrangers (AWEX), la Cité Iternationale and Institut Confucius de Liège in cooperation with the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, the Madariaga Foundation, the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies and the Belgian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

27 November 2009: Citizen's Controversy on "Does the New Chinese Pensions Scheme Boost consumers' spending in China? " With Robert Verrue, European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities and Huang Huabo, Director at the General Department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and First Secretary at the Chinese Mission to the EU.

12 November 2009: Seminar on EU-China Relations in an age of transition, with the participation of Cui Hongjian, Director of the Department of European Studies, China Institute for International Studies (CIIS), Professor Liu Jiansheng, Professor Tong Tianqui and Dr. Jin Ling, China Institute for International Studies (CIIS).

29 October 2009: Workshop "Is China moving towards to a Low Carbon Society?". Read More

23 October 2009: Worshop "EU-China-Africa: Prospects for a Trilateral Win-Win-Win Cooperation", organized by the Asia Centre - Science Po Paris (www.centreasia.org ) in cooperation with the Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation. Please click here for more information.

20 October 2009: Working Lunch on the State of EU-China cooperation in a view of the next EU-China Summit, with Ambassador Mei, Director of the Institute of World Development and a former chinese Ambassador to Germany and Yang Jiemin, President of the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS).

19 January 2009: Conference "China's Ability to Cope with Natural Disasters: A Global Challenge".

List of Related Pubblications:

'Bretton-Woods III needs a G3-Plus', by Pierre Defraigne - Madariaga Paper, vol. 2, No. 7 (Dec., 2009)

'China's PLAN:Securing Supplies and Sailing into Blue-Waters?', by Daniel Fiott - Madariaga Paper, vol. 2, No. 6 (Dec., 2009)

‘La Chine forcera-t-elle l'UE à l'unité politique?’, Madariaga Paper, vol. 2, No. 5 (Jul., 2009)

Introductory Remarks by Pierre Defraigne to the International Workshop on the EU-China Partnership, organised by the Inbev Baillet Latour Chair at the College of Europe, in Bruges (03 April 2009)

'A Global Crisis Calls for a Global Answer', Introductory Remarks made by Pierre Defraigne at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (27-28 October, 2008).