Midday press briefing from 28/07/2026
Exterior views of the European Commission Berlaymont building
ANNOUNCEMENT - Media arrangements
TRADE - China: Q&A
TRADE - USA: Q&A
TRADE - China: Q&A
TRADE - Russia: Q&A
Recorded cutaways
WAR IN UKRAINE / INTERNAL MARKET - 21st package of sanctions against Russia / Export of Irish alumina to Russia: Q&A
FOREIGN AFFAIRS - 21st package of sanctions against Russia: Q&A
FOREIGN AFFAIRS - Russian drones over Latvia and Romania: Q&A
FOREIGN AFFAIRS - Ukraine / Russia / Iran: Q&A
FOREIGN AFFAIRS - EU Special Representatives: Q&A
FOREIGN AFFAIRS - ICC EU airspaces restrictions: Q&A
SAFE - Italy / Ukraine: Q&A
DIGITAL SERVICE ACT - Media Social law in Austria: Q&A
AI ACT - Agenda: Q&A
SOCIAL MEDIA BAN- UK/US: Q&A
CRISIS RESPONSE - Wildfires in Europe / Civil Protection Mechanism: Q&A
UKRAINE FACILITY PLAN - Q&A
Midday press briefing from 28/07/2026
TRADE - China: Q&A
Show transcript
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Sorry, it's just on a slightly different matter.
There were some media reports late last week that the Commission has postponed several trade defense investigations into Chinese goods,
including some safeguard investigations into chemicals for a combination of reasons in the report at the capital forum. The first one was staffing issues.
The second was that they didn't want to jeopardize the ongoing talks with China.
I just wanted to see if there was any on the record comment on those, on those issues. Thank you. All of you are still with us. Can you still see and hear me? Yeah, we do. Thanks. Thank you. Thanks for your question, Finbar.
As you know, we don't provide commentary on any internal work that may or may not be happening on trade defense cases,
and that's really all we can say on the record.
I see Mose has a question, possibly for Olof. I'm not.
