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By Samuel Stolton, Ewa Krukowska, and Tom Hancock

April 9, 2024 at 11:47 AM UTC

Updated on

April 10, 2024 at 8:00 AM UTC

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The European Union ramped up pressure on Chinese clean-tech investments potentially squeezing out its local suppliers amid EU efforts to transform the bloc into a green economy.

The EU’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager announced an early-stage probe of Chinese involvement in wind parks in Spain, Greece, France, Romania and Bulgaria, in a speech in the US.