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EU, Japan agree to work together to promote free trade, economic security
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....U, Japan agree to work together to promote free trade, economic security<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 23-7-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Tokyo, Jul 23 (AP) Leaders of the European Union and Japan launched an alliance Wednesday aimed at boosting economic cooperation, defending free trade and countering unfair trade practices as the two sides face growing challenges from the United States and China. The agreement follo....
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....wed a meeting among European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President António Costa and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. It comes just as Tokyo and Washington reached a new trade deal, which places 15 per cent tariffs on Japanese cars and other goods imported into the US, down from an initial 25 per cent. The leaders agreed to launch “competitiveness allianc....
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....e" aimed at stepping up trade, economic security and cooperation in innovation, energy and other areas, according to a joint statement released by the EU. The leaders also supported “a stable and predictable rules-based free and fair economic order,” and reaffirmed the importance of Japan-EU cooperation to uphold multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organisation at its core, as we....
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....ll as with other multilateral cooperation efforts. The EU and Japan also agreed to strengthen defence industry cooperation and to start talks on an information security agreement. Japan and the EU have been stepping up their security and defence cooperation amid growing global tensions and conflicts, including Russia's war on Ukraine, conflicts in the Middle East and increasingly assertive China....
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....'s military activity in Asia, recognizing that challenges in Europe and Indo-Pacific are inseparable. (AP) RD RD<BR> News - Press release - PIB....