Brussels, 30/11/2012 (Agence Europe) - The Council may have given the go-ahead on 29 November to opening free-trade talks with Japan, but France, followed by a number of European partners, including Spain, Italy, Romania and Slovakia, has obtained strict conditions on access to the Japanese market and has succeeded in getting the automotive sector declared a sensitive sector.
France, annoyed by the refusal of the Commission to monitor imports of South Korean cars into the EU, as it had...