BRT

Submission of the EU-Japan Business Round Table’s 2023 Recommendations to the Japanese Government

On 16 February 2024, Nobuhiro Endo (Japan-side BRT Chair and Executive Advisor, NEC Corporation) and Christopher Thomas (Representative Director, President of Merck Ltd., Japan, representing Belén Garijo, EU-side BRT Chair) submitted the BRT’s 2023 Recommendations to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

The EU-Japan BRT will address economic security, green transition, standardisation, and digital issues

Established in 1999 to foster communication and cooperation between EU and Japanese industries, November’s EU-Japan Business Round Table meeting will address 4 key areas for future EU-Japan cooperation – economic security, the green transition, standardisation and digital.

News from EU-Japan Business Round Table’s member NEC Japan establishes European subsidiaries to strengthen its work on AI drug development

NEC strengthens its European life science activities where AI technology, biomedical science and ICT combine to develop advanced therapies for patients across the globe. Central and Northern Europe’s vivid entrepreneurial and scientific environment, and the European clinical network and regulatory infrastructure, help drive developments in immunotherapies.

EU-Japan BRT to meet in November

The 25th annual meeting of the EU-Japan Business Round Table will take place in Brussels on Tuesday, 7 November 2023.

Formal Submission to PM Kishida of the BRT's 2022 Recommendations

On 17 January 2023 in Tokyo, the 2022 Recommendations adopted by the EU-Japan Business Round Table were formally submitted to the Government of Japan during a courtesy call on PM Kishida by

News from members of the EU-Japan Business Round table

MELCO supplies traction systems to SNCF.

European Commission’s Acting Director General for Research and Innovation addressed the EU-Japan Business Round Table

On 15 November 2022, European Commission’s Acting Director General (DG) for Research and Innovation, Ms Ratso, addressed remotely the members of the EU-Japan Business Round Table gathered in Tokyo.

Report on the 24th EU-Japan BRT

The 24th annual meeting of the EU-Japan Business Round Table took place in Tokyo on 15 November and addressed green, digital and other issues including equality & diversity, technological innovation and discussions with the EU and Japanese Authorities.

BRT news archive

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Here is a selection of news reports, events and other items that referenced/involved the BRT or one or more of its members:

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Previewing the 2022 EU-Japan BRT

Previewing the discussions in Tokyo in mid-November, by business leaders from the EU and Japan, of green, digital, and other industrial policy issues of mutual interest to the EU and Japan.

News from members of the EU-Japan Business Round table

Expansion of BASF majority-owned JV with TODA

How to deepen the EU-Japan partnership in a geopolitically challenging setting

During a meeting on 31 March, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer and the Vice-Minister for International Affairs of Japan Hirose Naoshi talked about the strong trade and investment ties between the EU and Japan, which have been reinforced after the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement that entered into force 3 years ago.

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EU-Japan Centre's News

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EU-Japan Newsletter, issue #94

EU-Japan Newsletter, issue #93

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