At their 25th bilateral summit in Tokyo on Tuesday 17 July, the European Union and Japan signed their strategic partnership and economic partnership agreements concluded in 2017, thereby sending out a clear message against the protectionism and isolationism of Donald Trump's USA.
The signature of the EU/Japan economic partnership agreement - a free-trade agreement, the investment provisions of which will now be negotiated in the framework of a separate agreement(see EUROPE 12061) is an...