Both the EU and China are undergoing noticeable changes.On the one hand,the good old days seem to be gone for the EU.Despite positive economic growth rate,the European economic recovery is incomplete and still faces a lot of challenges such as low investment and youth unemployment.As Brexit needs to be concluded by the end of this year in order to give time for the European Parliament to ratify it,the negotiations are ongoing with very tight agenda.Nobody denies that Brexit serves as a heavy blow to the EU,which gives rise to Euroscepticism and populism.The refugee/migration issue is not solved yet either– the fact that the Czech Republic,Hungary and Poland stubbornly rejected refugee quotas brought the EU’s refugee policy into a deadlock.Furthermore,both Bulgaria and Romania challenged the EU’s rule of law and European democratic norms that gave big headache to Brussels.If these problems won’t be properly handled before the end of this year,faith in the EU would be seriously questioned,which may affect negatively the general European election scheduled in 2019.
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