Economic relations between the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the countries of the European Community (EC) have a long history as well as great future potential. Merchant adventures, colonialist, traders, and foreign inventors from Europe have in the last two centuries brought about a continous exchange of goods, interests and ideas with Southeast Asia
This handbook provides basic information on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), its organization and the various co-operation activities associated with it. The emphasis here is on economic co-operation. Although such information is available in many forms, it is mostly scattered in official documents and various literature on ASEAN. There is, thus, a need to provide the basic i…