Upgrade of Asean-EU ties comes at right time

As strategic partners at a time of great power competition, both can benefit from greater collaboration in areas such as trade, pandemic preparedness, air transport agreements and support for multilateralism

Yeo Lay Hwee and Shada Islam For The Straits Times
PM Lee Hsieng Loong (right) and other delegates at the EU-Asean Leaders' Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct 19, 2018.
PM Lee Hsien Loong (right) and other delegates at the EU-Asean Leaders' Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct 19, 2018. PHOTO: ST FILE
Updated
Dec 03, 2020, 08:31 PM
Published
Dec 03, 2020, 05:00 AM

Asean and the European Union have long been friends and partners. The virtual 23rd Asean-EU Ministerial Meeting on Tuesday has finally declared they are also strategic partners.

The upgrade of the dialogue partnership to strategic partnership is good news.

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