Macau Daily Times, 22 Mar 2009
The European Union is poised to alter its southeast Asia trade policy to deal with individual members of the ASEAN trade alliance rather than with the bloc as a whole, a senior official said Friday.
The German daily Handelsblatt quoted EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton as saying: "The process with ASEAN up to now has been very slow. We must now check how we can move forward quicker with individual countries that are prepared to do so."
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