Germany insists EU subsidy probe into China electric vehicles to have high burden of proof

China reacted angrily to the European Commission’s announcement this month that it will investigate the subsidies

The EU’s move is 'perfectly normal' and the bloc is justified in looking into whether there are 'undue subsidies', German official said.

Germany has expressed its support for the European Union’s anti-subsidy probe into Chinese electric vehicles while making it clear the burden of proof will be “very high” if the investigation is to lead to concrete action. 

“It’s very natural that if we are embracing the key elements of free trade, we all have to play by the rules,” Joerg Kukies, chancellor Olaf Scholz’s chief economic adviser, has said at an Atlantic Council forum in Berlin.