How strategic is the EU-Asia relationship?

How strategic is the EU-Asia relationship? That is a timely question in light of the Spring 2015 controversy about EU member states joining the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and one that a group of think tankers and EU representatives tried to answer in a workshop ECFR co-hosted in Brussels, as part of its Global Strategy project, together with the Mercator Foundation and Egmont Institute.

ESO: Background information: What Europe needs is an EIIB, not an AIIB http://www.europeansources.info/record/what-europe-needs-is-an-eiib-not-an-aiib/

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