The European Union and Japan have adopted during their last Summit, which took place in Tokyo on 19 July, conclusions announcing the launch of a new partnership inaugurating the "decade of EU-Japanese cooperation".
The new partnership will be specified in a policy document and an action plan that will be adopted during the next Summit in 2001, on the tenth anniversary of the first "EU/Japan declaration". Nevertheless the "joint conclusions" adopted in Tokyo already outline the broad path of...