EU trade chief heads to Beijing as deficit with China hits 360 billion euros
Šefčovič meets Wang in Beijing from 8 Oct 2026 after an ~€360bn EU-China deficit; Penny Naas expects “a few crumbs,” not a major breakthrough.
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About Maroš Šefčovič
Maroš Šefčovič is a Slovak diplomat and politician serving as European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency (2024–2029) in the Von der Leyen Commission II. Prior to that, he was the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal from 2023 to 2024, as well as Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional Relations since 2019, previously holding the office from 2010 to 2014. He has been a member of the European Commission since 2009. Šefčovič also stood for office in the 2019 Slovak presidential election, which he lost to Zuzana Čaputová.
Everything about Maroš Šefčovič →- Occupation
- diplomat, politician, jurist
- Position held
- European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, European Commissioner for Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, vice-president of the European Commission
- Citizenship
- Slovakia
- Born
- July 24, 1966, 1966