The EU's outlook on ASEAN and Southeast Asia has been reflected in policy papers that it has published from time to time. They are either focused on ASEAN or Southeast Asia specifically or placed in the larger context of EU-Asia relations. The first of these in 1994 was Toward a New Asia State The new Dynamic in EU-Asean Relation issue in 1996, was specifically on the EU's relations with ASEAN. The 2001 paper, Europe and Asia: A Strategic Framework for Enhanced Partnerships, was followed in 2003 by A New Partnership with South East Asia. These "communications" from the European Commission all stressed .the importance of Asia or Southeast Asia to Europe in the light of the circumstances of the times and proposed areas of focus for the EU's relations with the region in response to those circumstances. In discussing Towards a New Asia Strategy, the joint declaration of the landmark Karlsruhe AEMM in 1994 affirmed, ''ASEAN should remain a cornerstone of the EU's dialogue with the Asian region." Further on, it stressed that EU-ASEAN cooperation was "a central element in relations between Europe and the Asia-Pacific Region". A New Partnership with South East Asia emphasized that, in its cooperation with ASEAN, the EU would give priority· to regional stability; human rights, democracy and good governance; "justice and home affairs issues" like crime and migration; trade and investment; and supporting ASEAN's poorer members in health and education. These policy parameters are today supposed to guide the EU's cooperation with ASEAN.