EU leaders to pledge de-risk from China and debate what this means

BRUSSELS, June 30 (Reuters) – European Union leaders are set on Friday to commit to reducing the bloc’s dependence on China and debate how to strike the balance between “de-risking” and engaging in areas such as climate change. “This is the million euro question,” Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins told reporters on his arrival at the two-day summit in Brussels on Thursday. “We need to de-risk and that means being able to step back to some degree because geopolitically the apparently growing relationship between China and Russia is a potential problem for all of us,” he said. Draft conclusions for…