Asem can help Asia and Europe forge a truly powerful partnership

The foreign ministers’ meeting of Asem that I chair might sound like a rather bureaucratic acronym, but is, actually, politically a highly relevant event for our continents. The Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem) forum brings together 53 partners made up of the 28 European Union member states, Norway, Switzerland, the EU, 21 countries in Asia and the Asean secretariat. Together we represent 55 per cent of global trade, 60 per cent of global gross domestic product, 60 per cent of the global population…