European Businesses’ Wish List for China’s 15FYP
The European Chamber’s annual flagship report, the European Business in China Position Paper, was released on 17th September.
As 2025 is the last year of China’s 14th Five-year Plan (FYP), this year’s Executive Position Paper reviews the plan’s outcomes and provides constructive recommendations for the upcoming 15FYP, based on feedback from our member companies.
The one about the European Stability Mechanism
How transnational human smuggling fuels conflict in Libya
Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia at Odds Over Africa’s Largest Dam
With no water-sharing agreement with Ethiopia in place after decades of negotiations, what options remain for downstream Egypt and Sudan?
The discussion explores the political, economic, and security stakes of the dispute, prospects for averting open conflict, and what the issue reveals about the shifting balance of power in the Horn of Africa.
Interview about municipal innovation in heat
lkka Rasanen works for the municipality of Lappeenranta in the South East of Finland.
The 700.000 inhabitants are essentially getting their heat through a district heating network which is owned by the municipality and supplied by clean energy from the municipal utility.