Meeting in Tokyo on Thursday 12 May for the 28th EU-Japan Summit, European Council President Charles Michel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are expected to announce the launch of a digital partnership, the first of its kind.
This will provide a framework for cooperation on digital issues. “We have broadly shared objectives with Japan on semiconductors, free flow of data, 5G and 6G, etc”, said an EU source ahead of the...