Good morning. Angela Skujins here on newsletter duties, helping you digest all the major news from Brussels and beyond for the final week before the summer holidays.
Tricks of the trade. A delegation from the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, led by Member of the European Parliament and chair David McAllister, is in China this week for meetings with Chinese authorities.
We tried to contact members of the delegation during the visit, only to be reminded that their phones had been taken away by the local authorities and they were incommunicado. But the timing is notable.
With Brussels and Beijing working towards an October deadline to tackle the EU's hundreds-of-billions-of-euros trade deficit with China, economic ties are once again under the spotlight.
Against that backdrop, Euronews trade reporter Peggy Corlin shifts the focus to another crucial relationship: the EU and the United States. One year after the Turnberry deal, she examines a transatlantic partnership that has remained anything but smooth.
