EU-ASEAN Forum: what can the EU learn from the ASEAN experience?

In a world marked by climate change and geopolitical shifts, it is time to recalibrate the European Union’s relationship with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and make it fit for the 21st century. Europe must abandon its self-perceived role as a one-sided knowledge provider and come to fully understand its mutual dependency on and the global impact of ASEAN. Learning from past mistakes means moving away from the ‘Western norm’ as the unequivocal ideal. One of the biggest and consistently overlooked opportunities is that of what the EU can learn from ASEAN’s functioning as a regional organisation with such an immensely diverse range of member states.

In that spirit, the themes of Friends of Europe’s first-ever EU-ASEAN Forum will focus on multilateralism, trade and digital economy to explore one central question: what can the EU learn from the ASEAN experience, and how can we attain a more equal relationship between the two regions?

Additional overarching questions to be addressed include:

What can the EU and ASEAN learn from one another in how each approaches and adjusts to the digitalisation of the global economy and their domestic economies and societies?
Following the momentum created by the EU-ASEAN Commemorative Summit in December 2022, how do we make sure ASEAN and the EU keep each other on their agenda and continue to strengthen both region-to-region and bilateral relations in the years to come?

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