In the final edition of our EU-ASEAN Relations Essay Series, Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice-President of European Commission & Trade Commissioner provides his insights to the EU and ASEAN being economic partners in a dynamic world.

EVP Dombrovskis further shares on the EU’s new strategy for trade and with it the aim to respond to new global challenges and lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis through a focus on openness, sustainability and assertiveness and how, when it comes to trade, investment and economic relations, the EU and ASEAN remain major partners.

“The fundamentals are solid: trade between the EU and ASEAN is largely complementary, and there is good potential to develop our relationship even further. Indeed, this is a priority for the EU.”

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