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Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Korea-EU FTA One Year On
by Vladimir Hlasny

The free trade agreement between Korea and EU was signed on 15 October 2009, and came into force on 1 July 2011. Under the FTA, the EU agreed to eliminate or phase out tariffs on 96% of goods, and Korea for 99% of goods, within three years. Within five years,

Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Dr Gerhard Sabathil (Director, East Asia and the Pacific, European External Service)
...on EU foreign policy during the euro crisis and EU's place in the Asia-Pacific economic integration.
by Gerhard Sabathil

Interview was conducted by Daniel Novotny (Global Europe).

Dr. Sabathil, could you briefly go through what is the biggest challenge to your work at this moment.
Our big challenge for the moment is to keep our foreign policy strong and constant despite the obvious situation of the euro zone,

Saturday, 07 July 2012
EU and ASEAN Models of Economic Integration in the Era of Globalization
by Pavel Hnát Zuzana Stuchlíková

The deep and heavily institutionalised model of the EU cannot possibly be applied to different economic and geographic conditions and it thus does not seem right to measure other integration models only from the EU perspective. It can be demonstrated that the level of economic integration in ASEAN does not

Saturday, 07 July 2012
The EU and the ASEAN Political-Security Community
by Shada Islam

ASEAN is moving rapidly to forge a stronger political and security identity, with members engaged in an array of new initiatives designed to achieve the ambitious goal in 2015. Reforms underway in Myanmar have added to ASEAN's political momentum as has the creation of the East Asia Summit. As ASEAN

Friday, 30 March 2012
Moroccan Elections and the ‘Islamist Challenge’: A Reason for EU Concern?
by Daniel Novotny

On November 25, Moroccans went to the polls to cast their historic vote in what were the first parliamentary elections in the region since the Arab Spring began, following the adoption of broad constitutional reforms in July. The results of the elections in Morocco, the first country to enjoy an

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