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EU INDO-PACIFIC STRATEGY (KEY ACTIONS)

Submitted by christian on Thu, 08/04/2022 - 18:31
  1. Engaging with Indo-Pacific partners to build more resilient and sustainable global value chains by diversifying trade and economic relations, and by developing technological standards and regulations that are in line with EU  values and principles.
  2. Completing EU trade negotiations with Australia, Indonesia and New Zealand
  3. Resuming trade negotiations and starting investment negotiations with India
  4. Completing an Economic Partnership Agreement with the East Africa Community
  5. Assessing the possible resumption of trade negotiations with Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand, and the eventual negotiation of a region-to-region trade agreement with ASEAN.
  6.  Concluding Partnership and Cooperation Agreements (PCA) with Malaysia and Thailand
  7. Starting PCA negotiations with the Maldives
  8. Bringing the EU’s upcoming Partnership Agreement with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) to full fruition.
  9. Concluding Green Alliances and Partnerships with willing and ambitious Indo-Pacific partners to fight against climate change and environmental degradation.
  10. Strengthening ocean governance in the region, including increasing the EU’s support for Indo-Pacific countries’ fisheries management and control systems, the fight against IUU fishing and the implementation of Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements.
  11. Expanding the network of digital partnerships with Indo-Pacific partners, as well as exploring the possibility of new Digital Partnership Agreements.
  12. Stepping up implementation of the Connectivity Partnerships with Japan and India
  13. Supporting partners in establishing an appropriate regulatory environment and facilitating the mobilisation of the necessary funding to improve connectivity on the ground between Europe and the Indo-Pacific.
  14. Strengthen cooperation on research and innovation under ‘Horizon Europe’
  15. Explore the association to this programme of eligible likeminded Indo-Pacific partners such as Australia, Japan, Republic of Korea, New Zealand and Singapore.
  16. Exploring ways to ensure enhanced naval deployments by EU Member States to help protect the sea lines of communication and freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific while boosting Indo-Pacific partners’ capacity to ensure maritime security.
  17. Reinforcing support to healthcare systems and pandemic preparedness for the least developed countries in the Indo-Pacific region,
  18. Enhancing collaborative research on communicable diseases in the context of the Horizon Europe research programme.
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