Free trade for Asia and Europe
- Published: 6 Nov 2012 at 20.03
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European and Asian leaders on Tuesday agreed to back free trade and resist protectionism as the best means of helping Europe out of its crisis and assuring Asia a rosy future.
''In Asia as well as in Europe, we are in the same boat, as the global economy keeps us interlinked,'' European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said at the end of the two-day Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem) informal summit held in Vientiane.
The European Union expressed a keen interest in pushing through new free trade agreements, similar to the ones recently reached with South Korea, with India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam, to boost trade between the two regions.
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