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 B11922A16). 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)