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EU-Asean relations

Opinion & Features
PERSPECTIVE

Asean’s next big test: Winning from accelerated EU trade deals

The EU is Indonesia’s fifth-biggest trade partner, with bilateral trade amounting to around US$30.1 billion last year. Under the Cepa, the South-east Asian economy will get zero tariffs for 80% of its export products to the bloc.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

EU’s Asean pivot accelerates with landmark Indonesia trade deal

Several companies still see Asean as the region with the best economic opportunities, far outpacing India and China. Its attraction is not hard to understand. 
Opinion & Features

How Asean can rewrite the global supply chain map

France's Emmanuel Macron shaking hands with his Vietnamese counterpart Luong Cuong. Macron's trip is the first visit by a French president to Vietnam in about a decade.
Opinion & Features

Macron’s Asean trip showcases EU’s Asia pivot

This photograph taken on October 22, 2024, shows European countries' flags displayed in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. (Photo by FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP)
Opinion & Features

Why Asean should matter to the European Commission

Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat invites the EU to tap on Singapore as a pathfinder to achieve new breakthroughs in Asean at the EU-Asean Business Council 10th Anniversary Gala Dinner on Apr 24.
ASEAN Business

Discussion on EU-Asean FTA has shifted towards cooperation in specific areas: DPM Heng

Chris Humphrey, executive director of EU-ABC, says that
ASEAN Business

Digital trade co-operation may be building block for elusive EU-Asean free-trade pact

As the first country in Asean to forge a trade deal with the European Union and, more notably, the first to be negotiating a digital trade agreement with the bloc, Singapore shines as a beacon of success in EU-Asean relations.
Opinion & Features

Strengthening interaction: Singapore’s role in EU-Asean ties

This will be European Union Ambassador to Singapore, Iwona Piórko's third Chinese New Year here.
Lifestyle
CHINESE NEW YEAR

Foreign relations: An ambassador’s CNY 

Strategic partners : The 24th EU-Asean ministerial meeting will take place in Brussels on Feb 2, 2024.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

The EU and Indo-Pacific: Partners for a more stable and prosperous world

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