Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva has said that he would like Portugal’s EU Presidency to be remembered as the “one that rebalanced the relationship with Asia”. The Portuguese presidency “at least tried to expand the European perspective, not only focusing on the classic Atlantic partners but also on more strategic areas”, said Santos Silva in the closing session of the 5th Conference “Europe as a global actor”. This explains why one of the priorities of the Portuguese presidency – which runs until 30 June – has been “to redirect Europe’s attention to another part of the world”, he said at the event organised by the International Studies Centre of ISCTE and the Observatory of Foreign Relations of the Autonomous University of Lisbon.