Europe Seeks United Front in Lithuania’s Trade Feud With China
- Lithuania says China is blocking imports over diplomatic spat
- Austrian foreign minister says important to ‘stand together’
The lobby of the Taiwanese Representative Office in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Photographer: Petras Malukas/AFP/Getty Images
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The European Union is still struggling to rally behind a unified message over accusations that China is economically targeting Lithuania, a member of the bloc’s single market, over a diplomatic feud between the two governments.
Foreign ministers from the EU’s 27 member states are discussing the situation in Brest, France, on Friday as the Lithuanian government says that restrictive Chinese measures are costing its companies tens of millions of euros.