VERY important for us Filipinos is the matter tackled in Dr. Jose Romero’s Ambassadors Corner column today. He originally titled his piece “The AEC: Its past and its future.” But we decided to give it a punchier headline because his intention is to persuade those who “have visions of Armageddon here in the Philippines with the implementation of the EAC” that it will be good for us Filipinos.

AEC is the Asean Economic Community. It is scheduled to start being a reality next year. The Asean countries’ leaders who envisioned it wants our region to be something like the unified economy that Europe is supposed to be.

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