On Tuesday 20 December, the day after a two-week round of technical level talks that essentially enabled progress without ironing out the differences on market access, the European Commission and Japanese government took note at political level of the postponement until 2017 of the conclusion of the EU-Japan free trade agreement.
European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström and Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida confirmed during a telephone call, their common resolve to resume the...