The European Union (EU) and Australia have announced the conclusion of negotiations and the signing of a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA). This rather unexpected announcement has been warmly welcomed by people across Europe and Oceania, who have waited nearly a decade for a firm handshake between the two continents in the field of trade.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung on March 17 received Helene Budliger Artieda, Director of Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, who is on a working visit to Viet Nam from March 15 to 17.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung chaired the Viet Nam–Saudi Arabia investment roundtable in Riyadh on October 27 as part of his working trip to Saudi Arabia, calling for stronger bilateral cooperation and greater participation from Saudi investors in Viet Nam’s growing economy.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Switzerland and the Switzerland – Viet Nam Economic Forum (SVEF) jointly organised the Viet Nam Day 2025 at the University of Zurich on June 23.

A report on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)’s impacts on the shaping of supply chains in Vietnam was released by the National Centre for Socio-Economic Information and Forecast (NCIF) and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Vietnam on November 10.