From 23 to 24
April 2026, the international conference entitled “The EU’s 7Ds: Cross-Party
Perspectives and the China Dimension” was successfully held at the Putuo Campus
of East China Normal University. The conference was jointly hosted by SIES and
the Center for European Studies of the School of Politics and International
Relations at East China Normal University, and was supported as a 2026
collaborative project of the Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations
as well as partially funded by the European Union. Scholars from universities
and research institutes in China and Europe gathered to discuss the internal
political restructuring of the European Union amid transformations in the
global order and its implications for China-EU relations. (For detailed
proceedings, please refer to the summary.)
