On Wednesday 1 March, the chief negotiators of the EU-Japan economic partnership agreement hinted that the EU and Japan are making every effort to ensure the entry into force of this agreement (which was concluded in December 2017) in early 2019 –ideally before the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.
"It’s a very high priority that it enter force before the end of March 2019”, Japan’s ambassador for international economic affairs, Yoichi Suzuki, said at a seminar in Brussels, adding...