The coronavirus crisis has intensified the debate in the EU and key member states on the relationship with China and its profound implications. While differences in national approaches persist, there is a growing consensus on the need for the EU to articulate a stronger and more strategically focused China policy in the face of a rapidly changing international environment characterized by great power rivalry.

The coronavirus crisis has intensified the debate in the EU and key member states on the relationship with China and its profound implications. While differences in national approaches persist, there is a growing consensus on the need for the EU to articulate a stronger and more strategically focused China policy in the face of a rapidly changing international environment characterized by great power rivalry.

El informe China es una publicación quincenal de FAES, en colaboración con Resilient Futures, que se enmarca dentro del proyecto ‘España y el debate euroatlántico sobre China’. Elaborado por Shiany Pérez-Cheng, el documento recoge una selección de noticias y materiales de interés para el debate en España sobre el ascenso de China y sus implicaciones estratégicas.

La cooperación europea en seguridad y defensa es una ambición insatisfecha desde los inicios del proyecto europeo. España es uno de los 25 países que participan en la Cooperación Estructurada Permanente con el objetivo de avanzar en una integración real. Pero la UE solo podrá reclamar el liderazgo global que merece si los Estados fortalecen su grado de compromiso político y Bruselas pone en marcha una política exterior coherente.

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Between 1996 and 2004, Spain enjoyed the longest period of prosperity in its democratic history. Five million jobs, convergence of up to 98% with regard to the average EU income per capita, low inflation, a favourite destination for foreign investment, reduction of the public debt in terms of GDP, a budget surplus and creation of a Social Security Reserve Fund, are all results of a new economic model introduced by the Partido Popular. The key aspects of this model are described in this book by Lorenzo Bernaldo de Quirós and Ricardo Martínez Rico. The foundations of this new economic model consisted of the following measures: restraints on public expenditure, reorientation of expenditure based on efficiency criteria, reductions in income tax and corporate tax rates, the elimination of certain forms of taxation, privatisation, liberalisation of the goods and services markets, promotion of competition, independent regulatory bodies, labour market reforms and more open economic links with abroad.