WATCH Europe Today: China and EU – has summit restored trust?-

By&nbspEuronews

Published on 25/07/2025 – 7:30 GMT+2
•Updated
8:16

After the one-day EU-China summit, the European Union announced on Thursday a tentative agreement with China to alleviate restrictions the country had placed on critical exports of rare earths.

How soon might this agreement yield results? What more progress can be expected ahead to ease the lingering trade and political tensions between the two sides?

Euronews reporters will explain the upshot of the Beijing meeting on Euronews’ Europe Today special summit edition.

Anchor Mared Gwyn Jones also quizzes electric vehicle boss Lothar Schuppert, the acting CEO of China’s Zeekr, about how EU tariffs are affecting his company’s expansion plans. Are they slowing things down?

Meanwhile, Austrian EPP MEP Lukas Mandl and Irish liberal Cynthia Ní Mhurchú go face to face on China-EU relations: Is the EU striking the right balance with the Asian giant on security?

Watch Euronews’ Europe Today here at 8am on Friday.