It's a last minute deal.
While the signature seemed compromised this weekend, the investment treaty between China and the EU could be validated as early as Tuesday or just before the end of the year.
A European diplomat confirmed that the Commission remained
"positive"
after the latest developments.
According to this source, no European ambassador would have issued a veto during a working session on Monday.
According to another source in Brussels, Beijing would have complied with certain conventions of the International Labor Organization, in particular on the abolition of forced labor.
Paris had made it a condition, denouncing the internment in camps of more than a million Uighurs and their forced labor in the textile industry.
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Once the agreement is signed, Charles Michel, President of the Council and Ursula van der Leyen, President of the Commission, should, according to the same source, organize a videoconference with President Xi Jinping in the wake.
The negotiations around this treaty had
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