Analysis by Barbara Deme
This paper analyses the bilateral relationship between the European Union and Japan through various, mainly economic partnerships. These economic partnerships have become stronger through time, and now Japan and the European Union are working together in different dimensions, for example in the Green Alliance climate political partnership. Green Alliance is a strong environmental cooperation that promotes the use of renewable energy and supports scientific and business cooperation between Japan and the European Union. The paper briefly introduces the history of Japan-EU relations and their most important partnerships. For a comparison with EU-Japan partnerships, the paper also describes US-Japan partnerships, as the US has been Japan’s key partner since the 1950s.
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