Setting the Agenda for the Twenty-First Century: China, Hong Kong, Macau and the European Union

Abstract

1995 saw the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of formal relations between the EC and China. To mark the occasion, the European Commission adopted its Communication ‘A long-term policy for Europe-China relations’. The aim was to set out a strategy for relations with China into the next century. The Communication was broadly endorsed by the Madrid European Council in December 1995 and the paper has stood the test of time well. It still provides the basis for our current relations.