This seminar report presents the main lines of discussion among senior civil servants working for culture ministries in Europe and Asia, researchers and artists at a meeting held in Bangkok in 2004. The seminar aimed at highlighting existing policy options, setting up procedures for assessing current policies; creating opportunities for Europe and Asia to learn from each other; and trying to find innovative solutions to current cultural policy dilemmas in both regions. Recommendations included: the creation of programmes to facilitate and encourage more artists’ mobility and project exchanges between Asia and Europe as well as creating information systems which would help to promote exchanges on the cultural policy level. The role of ASEF in the field of multilateral cultural cooperation was highlighted including its position as a bridge between the artists/cultural professionals and cultural policy makers in Asia and Europe.