Chinese investment in EU infrastructure and EU security

Question for written answer E-004810/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Piotr Müller (ECR)

The increasing presence of People's Republic of China-related companies in European strategic infrastructure (in particular in maritime ports, railways, energy and digital systems) has become one of the key challenges for EU security and resilience.

The scale of involvement of Chinese capital in these sectors today goes beyond ordinary economic investment and is increasingly of direct geopolitical significance.

Experience in recent years has shown that Chinese companies operate in close connection with state policy, and access to critical infrastructure can in practice be used as a tool to exert economic or political pressure.

Unlike the EU's democratic partners such as the United States, Japan or South Korea, China's legal and economic system does not offer comparable guarantees of transparency, corporate independence or market reciprocity.

In this context, I should like to put the following questions to the Commission:

• 1.Does the Commission intend to propose specific restrictions on investment and participation of Chinese entities in critical infrastructure at EU level?
• 2.How will the Commission differentiate in its policy between its approach to investors from China and its approach to the EU's partner countries and allies, such as the US, Japan and South Korea?
• 3.What instruments does the Commission envisage to effectively reduce China's influence in strategic sectors, without weakening economic cooperation with like-minded countries?

Submitted: 4.12.2025