22/04/24 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 22 April, the Council of the European Union adopted a decision aimed at definitively concluding the Economic Partnership Agreement signed with Japan at the end of 2017 and provisionally applied since then (see EUROPE 11922/16). This step was made possible after the Member States finalised their national ratification procedures at the beginning of April. See the EU-Japan agreement: https://aeur.eu/f/bw7 (MB)