After an opening ceremony and gala dinner on Thursday 18 October, the European leaders are meeting their Asian counterparts on Friday 19, for the 12th ASEM (Europe-Asia Meeting) summit on the theme of "Europe and Asia: global partners for global challenges".
In total, the leaders of the 30 European states (the EU28, Norway and Switzerland) and of the 21 Asian countries, including China, Russia and Japan, "will try to strengthen dialogue and cooperation between the two continents in a...