Relations between Asia and Europe have come a long way since the colonial and postindependence periods in Asia. For the last thirty years, Europe has been building a constructive relationship with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)....

Although there has been a large degree of integration between European Union member states, foreign relations is still a largely inter-governmental matter, with the 27 members controlling their own relations to a large degree. However with the Union...

French Pres Chirac appears like a bully in his rebuffing EU countries after they criticized France for its nuclear testing in the South Pacific. Other EU countries have taken criticism much better than Chirac's France. IT IS a dangerous thing to rebuke France....

May Summit on horizon. EU diplomats report that Foreign Ministers held a brief but not ill-timed "tour de table" on EU-Russia relations in view of the May Summit, to which all 15 EU Member States have been invited. Sources say that the...