Seminars
Foreign Direct Investment Activities
Overview and Prospects for the EU-China and Japan-China Trade Relations
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Overview:
China is the single most important challenge for both the EU and Japanese trade policies today. For the EU, China is now the 2nd trading partner behind the USA and the biggest source of imports. For China, the EU is the biggest trading partner. In 2006 the European Commission adopted a major policy strategy (Partnership and Competition) on China that pledged the EU to accepting tough Chinese competition while pushing China to trade fairly. In 2008 the EU and China launched a new strategic mechanism for driving trade and economic policy, the High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue, to deal with issues of strategic importance to EU-China trade and economic relations. This dialogue provides a tool to address issues of mutual concern in the areas of investment, market access and intellectual property rights protection, as well as other issues related to trade. In this seminar, Ms Helena König, the Head of Unit for the Trade Relations with the Far East of the Directorate-General for Trade of the European Commission, presented overview of the EU’s issues of strategic importance in its trade relations with China. The seminar was also joined by Mr Hideto Akiba, the Director of the Northeast Asia Division of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, to outline the prospects of the Japan-China trade relations. Programme:
Report: Overview and Prospects for the EU-China and Japan-China Trade Relations Pictures of the event. Click on a thumbnail to zoom in.
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Creating products and platforms through better cultural understanding on Europe and its market
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Place: EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, Tokyo, Japan
Report: Creating products and platforms through better cultural understanding on Europe and its market Pictures of the event. Click on a thumbnail to zoom in.
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Investment Seminar for the French Regions of Champagne-Ardenne, Ouest Atlantique and Languedoc-Roussillon
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Place: EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, Tokyo
Supported by: Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) More information: The EU-Japan Centre held an investment seminar for the French regions of Champagne-Ardenne, Ouest Atlantique and Languedoc-Roussillon, presenting to a Japanese business audience the economic and investment opportunities in these diverse regions in France. The event was organised as part of the EU-Japan Centre’s activity to promote the growth of Japanese FDI into the EU market. Pictures of the event. Click on a thumbnail to zoom in.
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Hungary Business Seminar
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Seminar organised within the framework of the FDI-Japan investment project.
Date: 23 April 2008
Purpose: the seminar aimed to give Japanese companies opportunities to explore and consider investment prospects in Hungary. Report: Hungary Business Seminar Report Pictures of the event. Click on a thumbnail to zoom in.
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During his visit to Japan where he took part in the 17th EU-Japan Summit Meeting , the European Commissioner for External Trade, Mr. Peter Mandelson, gave a public speech on "Unfinished Globalisation: Investment and the EU-Japan relationship"
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Date: Monday 21 April 2008
Organisers: the Delegation of the European Commission to Japan and the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, with the support of METI and JETRO. More information: EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson called the issue of investment "unfinished globalisation" for EU and Japan. In a speech in Tokyo, Mandelson said that barriers to investment had kept productive EU investment out of the Japanese economy, despite the fact that Europe had been welcoming such investment for decades. Read the speech (English version) or visit the Delegation of the European Commission to Japan website for Japanese version and other details. Pictures of the event. Click on a thumbnail to zoom in.
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