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From Connectivity to Compliance: How AI governance can shape EU–ASEAN trade negotiations

02/10/2026

As ASEAN advances its digital agenda and AI adoption accelerates across Southeast Asia, regulatory choices are starting to shape trade, investment, and strategic partnerships in the Indo-Pacific. In this environment, the EU can seize the opportunity and promote fruitful partnerships amid ASEAN’s competitive market while positioning its regulatory framework as a driver for cooperation.

New State in the Bloc: Opportunities And Limits for Timor-Leste and ASEAN

01/27/2026

Timor-Leste’s accession as ASEAN’s eleventh member in October 2025 marked the end of a fourteen-year accession process and a major milestone in the country’s post-independence foreign policy. While widely celebrated as a symbol of regional inclusion and reconciliation, the membership raises deeper questions about integration, institutional capacity, and ASEAN’s ability to manage persistent development gaps among its members.

Streamlining Trade: Harmonising Customs Along the Trans-Caspian Corridor

12/22/2025

The Trans-Caspian Corridor (TCTC) links Europe to the Greater Caspian Region and Central Asia, holding great potential to boost trade and diversify transport routes. Yet, fragmented regulations and limited digitalisation still slow its development. Tools such as eTIR, e-CMR, and Single Window Systems (SWS) can harmonise procedures and streamline cross-border trade. With its strategic location and digital reforms, the Greater Caspian Region stands at the centre of this transformation. Through region-to-region cooperation and interoperable digital frameworks, the EU can help make the TCTC a more efficient, competitive, and sustainable trade route between Europe and Central Asia.

PAST EVENT – Countering Corruption and Good Governance in Southeast Asia and the EU

12/02/2025

PAST EVENT: Embassy of Malaysia and EIAS ASEAN Forum 2025: The Outcome of the 47th ASEAN Summit – The Way Forward on ASEAN-EU Relations Beyond 2025, 05.12.2025

11/20/2025

EIAS LATEST

From Connectivity to Compliance: How AI governance can shape EU–ASEAN trade negotiations

New State in the Bloc: Opportunities And Limits for Timor-Leste and ASEAN

Streamlining Trade: Harmonising Customs Along the Trans-Caspian Corridor

Events

PAST EVENT – Countering Corruption and Good Governance in Southeast Asia and the EU

PAST EVENT: Embassy of Malaysia and EIAS ASEAN Forum 2025: The Outcome of the 47th ASEAN Summit – The Way Forward on ASEAN-EU Relations Beyond 2025, 05.12.2025

Op-eds

From Connectivity to Compliance: How AI governance can shape EU–ASEAN trade negotiations

New State in the Bloc: Opportunities And Limits for Timor-Leste and ASEAN

Briefing Papers

EU-China Trade: Facilitating Bilateral Trade Through a Joint Fiat-Backed Stablecoin

South Korea as the New International Defence Industrial Powerhouse: Implications For Europe

Policy Briefs

Streamlining Trade: Harmonising Customs Along the Trans-Caspian Corridor

How The EU Can Leverage The Current FTA Negotiations To Secure A Mutually Beneficial CRM Partnership With India

EIAS Talks

ASEAN-EU Relations: The Road to 45

30 Years of Independence: The Future of Uzbekistan and Uzbek-EU Relations EIAS Talk with H.E. Ambassador Dilyor Khakimov

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