On the occasion of the summit between the European Union and Japan, the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzō Abe, the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, recalled on Thursday 25 April their joint commitment to defend a rules-based international order within the framework of multilateral forums (see EUROPE B12241A1).
From a bilateral trade perspective, with the entry into force of their Economic Partnership Agreement...