The European Union and China: Economic Priorities of the EU in China and Their Institutional Support.

This paper analyzes the ways and mechanisms of how the European Union attempts to support its economic interests in relations with China. It also examines if the EU can be considered effective in assisting European companies that export to China and invest in China. Moreover, it focuses on the fact, if the tools designed by the EU can help entrepreneurs from small EU member states, such as for example Slovakia, in their commercial activities in China. The author derives from scholarly works which discuss EU-China relations, and moreover from official documents published by the EU and China, trade and investment statistics, as well as from her empirical research on the problems that Slovak exporters and investors encounter in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]