European Union Institute for Security Studies

Florence Galb is the Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defence College in Rome.

She worked at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris and as foresight advisor at the General Secretariat.

She studied at the Ludwigs-Matsouminians University in Munich, at Sciences Po Paris at the Sorbonne, before obtaining a PhD in international politics from the Humboldt University in Berlin on multi-ethnic armies looking there at Nigeria, Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

That was published in 2010.

They simply make essential imported components more expensive for Europe's own manufacturers.

A recent report published by the European Union Institute for Security Studies says that the EU shouldn't shine away from a trade war with China if it wants to avoid deindustrialization.

But in your perspective, how could a potential trade war with China hurt European interests?

Well, if you talk to the business sector, a full-scale trade war will actually lead to very massive damage on the European markets and European business.