By David William Ferguson & Wang Ke
China.org.cn Multimedia Team

European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner visited China on March 29-30. During her visit, she held meetings with high-level Chinese counterparts, including Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi of MFA and Commerce Minister Chen Deming.

Today, she gave an exclusive TV interview to China.org.cn in which she expressed her concern about EU-China relations, common global problems, the upcoming G-20 meeting in London and the financial crisis.

5. This is the most difficult economic situation that the world has faced for a very long time. No-one is going to be immune from it. The Euro zone is going to suffer difficulties. Do you believe that the Euro itself will emerge from the current economic crisis as it is today, or do you expect some changes to have to be made?

(China.org.cn March 30, 2009)