Major European Union countries want to deal with China as a group rather than sign bilateral agreements as individual states, Germany’s Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said on Friday, when attending a summit in Beijing on China’s Belt and Road plan, reported Reuters.
“In the big EU states we have agreed that we don’t want to sign any bilateral memorandums but together make necessary arrangements between the greater European Economic Area and the economic area of Greater China,” Altmaier said when asked if he could see Germany signing a similar bilateral agreement to Italy.
Altmaier said at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing that Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom were united regarding how the EU should work with China, stating “we can only implement our positions together.”
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