On Thursday 13 July, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will welcome the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, to Brussels for the EU/Japan summit. They are due to adopt a joint declaration at the end of the meeting, in which they will take stock of the various partnerships existing between them and ways of strengthening them.
Relations between the two parties are mainly characterised by a strategic...