Brussels, 30/10/2012 (Agence Europe) - Without any influence in the case of the agreement in force with South Korea, Paris is backing up its defiance of the Commission ahead of negotiations with Japan.
On Monday 29 October, the French Minister for External Trade, Nicole Bricq, launched a public consultation on a potential EU-Japan free-trade agreement, to prepare her government's position ahead of the potential green light to be given by the Council, at the meeting of the Foreign Ministers...