Strengthening EU-Asia ties in a fragmented world

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ASEF Executive Director Beata Stoczyńska highlights the importance of Asia-Europe connectivity amid global fragmentation, stressing the EU’s role as a key partner in the region.

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00:00In a world increasingly marked by fragmentation and competing blocks,

00:05connecting Asia and Europe has never been more crucial.

00:09Beta Sojinski, Executive Director of Asia Europe Foundation,

00:13shares how this can be achieved and the EU's role as a key partner in the region.

00:20ASEAN is the third largest trade partner for the European Union.

00:27Just last year we had trade with ASEAN around 300 billion euros in service.

00:37Additionally, trade in service was 130 billion euros.

00:45So ASEAN for us and Asia as a whole is such an important partner and we absolutely advocate

00:54for more integration, more cooperation, more connectivities. Connectivities not only in a

01:04transport sense but connectivity in the sense of people-to-people exchange, education exchange,

01:15climate cooperation in every aspect.

01:18Beta also shares ASEAN works in fostering closer cooperation between the two regions.

01:24At the BOA forum roundtable discussion, digital transformation, green transformation was very much

01:33discussed. I would like to stress that also our foundation, we are doing a lot of projects

01:37dedicated to new technologies, new green transformation developments. So

01:44So I hope that our efforts will bring some positive agenda to the Europe and Asia cooperation.

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