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News Archive 2020
Chinese investment in Europe: Entering an uncharted territory?

Thematic Workshop
Organized by Working Group I (Strategic sectors and infrastructure development) of CHERN COST Action CA18215, Center for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary and Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork, Ireland
Date: 14. 12. 2020, 10.00 Central European Time (CET) / 9.00 Western European Time (WET) / 17.00 China Standard Time (CST)
Online Forum: Zoom
Please use the following link to join the event:
Programme (based on CET time zone)
10.00-10.10 Opening
Agnes Szunomar, Head of CHERN Working Group I, Senior Research Fellow, Head of Research Group on Development Economics, IWE CERS and Associate professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
10.10-10.30 Unpacking EU policy-making towards China: Perspectives on the EU foreign investment screening mechanism
Bas Hooijmaaijers, Assistant Professor and Chenhui Research Fellow, School of Advanced International and Area Studies, East China Normal University and Research Fellow, Leuven International and European Studies Institute, KU Leuven
10.30-10.50 Feeding China? The Politics of Chinese investment in European Agriculture and Food Sector
Niall Duggan, Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork, Ireland
10.50-11.10 Sino-German cooperation in Agriculture and Food Sector
Eva Sternfeld, Advisor Science Dialogue and S&T Platform, Sino-German Agricultural Center (DCZ), Beijing, China
11.10-11.30 Chinese investment into European health sector
Anabela Santiago, PhD student of Public Policies, Social, Political and Territorial Sciences Department, University of Aveiro, Portugal
11.30-12.00 Joint discussion
For more on this story contact:
Dr. Niall Duggan
Department of Government and Politics
University College Cork
Email: N.duggan@ucc.ie