Proposal on strengthening Taiwan-Europe links coming soon: MOFA
ROC Central News Agency
01/04/2022 01:55 PM
Taipei, Jan. 4 (CNA) A plan aimed at enhancing links between Taiwan and Europe in several fields is being discussed by several government agencies and will be unveiled in the near future, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) official said Tuesday.
Remus Chen (陳立國), director general of MOFA's Department of European Affairs, said the program is currently being devised by several agencies, without naming any of them other than the MOFA.
It is aimed at further enhancing already strong economic, education, scientific research and supply chain ties between Taiwan and Europe, he said.
Chen was addressing President Tsai Ing-wen's (蔡英文) pledge to "soon put forward a plan to strengthen our ties with Europe, and promote deeper exchanges between Taiwan and European countries" in her New Year's Day address on Saturday.
No details of the plan were provided by Tsai, and Chen, who offered few other details of his own, would only say that more information will be provided by the different agencies involved.
An unnamed official from the National Development Council (NDC) told CNA on Saturday, however, that the project is being handled by the NDC, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Science and Technology, MOFA, and the Ministry of Education.
It was proposed to the president by the NDC to serve as a long-term, all-inclusive plan to enhance Taiwan's ties with Europe, made more urgent by the reshaping of supply chains because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the official said under the condition of anonymity.
The program's main function will be to coordinate research from different government agencies to conduct "systematic and comprehensive exchanges" on economic, trade, and diplomatic fronts with businesses and people in Europe, the official said.
(By Pan Tzu-yu and Joseph Yeh)
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