11/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - Parliament wants efforts on non-tariff barriers before free-trade agreement. In a resolution passed in plenary session in Strasbourg on Wednesday 11 May, the European Parliament (EP) supported the opening of negotiations on a free-trade agreement between the EU and Japan, but expects much more movement by Japan on non-tariff barriers beforehand. MEPs expressed their dissatisfaction with the “negligible progress in the High Level Group”, in which the EU and...