TODAY’S HEADLINE | Jokowi sticks up for palm oil, nickel policy at EU-ASEAN summit

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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has taken a more outspoken stance against the European Union’s efforts to impose its own sustainability standards on trade with ASEAN, insisting at a summit on Wednesday that it would have to treat the bloc as an equal if it wanted to build a better partnership.

His remarks, delivered at a special EU-ASEAN Summit to celebrate 45 years of their dialogue partnership, comes amid disagreements over EU environmental and trade policies, as well as efforts to conclude a trade deal that has languished for 15 years.

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Southeast Asia, Jokowi said, had become a world economic powerhouse and so a partnership with ASEAN would benefit the EU. But going forward, he asserted, Europe would have to let ASEAN nations to do what was necessary to develop their own economies.

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Yvette Tanamal (The Jakarta Post)

 Jakarta   ●   Fri, December 16 2022

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