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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11324

30 May 2015
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) japan
Free-trade agreement hoped for by early 2016

Brussels, 29/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - At their 23rd annual summit in Tokyo on Friday 29 May, the leaders of the EU and Japan agreed to speed up talks for strategic partnership and free-trade agreement, which were both launched in 2013 and are being carried out in parallel.

“As regards economics, we agreed to speed up negotiations for the EU/Japan partnership in order to reach an agreement in principle before the end of this year”, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said after the...

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