Ambassador Markus Cornaro |
Over the past time, the Vietnam-EU cooperation and friendship have been expanded from primarily the domains of health care, science and education to finance, banking, telecommunications and legislature.
Two-way trade between the two sides surged to US$ 9.9 billion in 2006 from US$ 4.1 billion in 2000. The EU pledged to give Vietnam €43.4 million each year from 2007 to 2013 as official development assistance, increasing 30% per year on average against the period of 2002-2006. Investors from the EU have conducted 551 projects in Vietnam, worth of US$ 7.34 billion.
By Xuân Hồng