Turning to cross-strait matters, President Chen, pointing to the recent enlargement of the European Union, declared that the trend toward regionalization has led to fundamental changes in conventional thinking about national sovereignty and territorial boundaries, and expressed hope that leaders on both sides of the Taiwan Strait would heed this trend and adopt a fresh new framework to find a way out of the tense cross-strait situation.
陳總統並提及歐盟的區域整合模式，希望能以打破國家主權及國界藩籬的新思惟方向，為險峻的兩岸關係尋求出路。