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EU-ASEAN relationsFor more information on EU-ASEAN relations:

ASEAN:http://www.asean.org/resource/statistichttp://www.aseanstats.org

EU mission to ASEAN:https://eeas.europa.eu/asean

Eurostat:http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat

See also the ‘Statistics explained’ articles on EU-ASEAN cooperation available under: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Non-EU_countries

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EU-ASEAN dialogue relations

2017 is a special year for both EU and ASEAN: it marks the 60th Anniversary of EU, the 50th Anniversary of ASEAN and the 40th Anniversary of the EU-ASEAN Dialogue Relations.

The European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) established formal relations in 1977 through the 10th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting; these relations were institutionalised with the signing of the ASEAN–EEC Cooperation Agreement in March 1980.

ASEAN-EU relations are guided by the Nuremberg Declaration on an EU–ASEAN Enhanced Partnership, adopted in March 2007. The Declaration sets out a long-term vision and commitment for both sides to work together. At the ASEAN–EU Ministerial Meeting held in Brunei in 2012, the EU and ASEAN adopted the Bandar Seri Begawan Plan of Action to Strengthen the ASEAN-EU Enhanced Partnership (2013–2017), a wide-ranging document aimed at guiding and bringing the cooperation between the two regions to a higher level. A new Plan of Action, covering the period 2018-2022, was adopted by ASEAN Foreign Ministers and the EU High Representative F. Mogherini on the occasion of the ASEAN-EU Post-Ministerial Conference held in Manila on 6 August 2017.

In 2015 a Joint High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/ European Commission Communication on EU– ASEAN relations and their further strengthening was adopted. The document ‘The EU and ASEAN: a Partnership with a Strategic Purpose’ was subsequently endorsed by the EU Foreign Affairs Council. The 2016 ASEAN–EU Ministerial Meeting (Bangkok) confirmed the positive momentum in EU–ASEAN relations and the shared objective of taking them to a higher level in the future, with the possible establishment of a Strategic Partnership between the two regions.

High quality statistics and capacity-building

The ASEAN–EU Dialogue Relations rely on good quality statistics to analyse the current situation and identify the most appropriate policies to progress towards common goals.

The need to address current global challenges is generating a growing demand for good quality statistics. Therefore, both European and ASEAN partners are very active — on national, regional and international levels — in promoting the relevance and comparability of statistics.

Economic progress and growing trade links

It is notable how much the gross domestic product (GDP) has grown in the ASEAN since 2005: growth in GDP in ASEAN-10 averaged 5.1 % per year between 2005 and 2015, compared with 1.0 % per year in the EU-28.

There was also a rapid growth in international trade for ASEAN-10, as exports and imports of goods with partners outside of ASEAN more than doubled between 2005 and 2016. Over the same period, the EU-28’s exports and imports of goods with non-EU partners increased by around 50%. In 2016, the EU-28’s exports of goods to ASEAN were valued at EUR 86 billion, up 92.1 % compared to 2005. Correspondingly, the imports of goods from ASEAN were valued at EUR 121 billion, an increase of 69.9 % over the same period.

EU-28 international trade in services with non-EU partners increased by almost 50% between 2010 and 2015. There was an even faster growth for ASEAN-10 (including intra-ASEAN trade in services), as exports increased by 71 % and imports by 62 %, leading to a narrowing of ASEAN’s trade deficit for services. In 2015, the EU-28’s exports in services to ASEAN-10 were valued at EUR 40 billion, up by more than three quarters since 2010, while imports of services were valued at EUR 35 billion, an increase of almost two thirds over the same period.

EU-28 is a major investment partner to ASEAN. From 2015 to 2016, net direct investment flows from EU-28 to ASEAN-10 increased by 43 %, from EUR 19 billion to EUR 28 billion.

EU and ASEAN Member States:European Union Member States: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden and United KingdomASEAN member states: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam

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Source: Eurostat (online data code: nama_10_a10) and United Nations Statistics Division (National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates)