Win in China EV tariffs vote leaves EU relieved yet wary over Beijing's likely retaliation
“The stakes are hard to overstate. If Scholz had succeeded in overturning the tariffs at the eleventh hour, it would have vindicated China’s efforts to lean on individual member-states and been the final nail in the coffin of EU efforts to have a foreign economic policy,” said Sander Tordoir of the Centre for European Reform.
“That the EV tariffs will still pass is because other countries, including traditional Berlin ally the Netherlands, are holding the line.”