Europe have been a sleeping beast, or a lot of sleeping beasts, since the end of WW2. Looks like everyone is kicking the hornets nest thinking it’s “just old Europe” or something.

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This message was driven home loud and clear Wednesday when the European Commission announced an investigation into China’s public procurement of medical devices, confirming an earlier report by POLITICO.

Trade tensions grew after the Commission opened a high-profile investigation into state subsidies for made-in-China electric vehicles in October, with China retaliating by launching an anti-dumping probe into European brandy exports.

The EU has been preparing the procurement investigation for months — with Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen giving the final green light this week.

Miriam D’Ambrosio, spokesperson for trade association MedTech Europe, said that while the organization had not submitted a complaint to the Commission to trigger the IPI investigation, the industry faces a difficult business environment.

In a hint the Commission was taking those concerns seriously, EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis said in September that “further work” was needed to “improve public procurement access for European medical devices.”

In its notice of initiation published Wednesday in the Official Journal, the first formal step of the inquiry, the European Commission warned that China’s practices result “in a serious and recurrent impairment of access of Union economic operators, goods and services to the PRC’s public procurement market for medical devices."

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