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E.U. and Japan Reach Deal to Keep ‘Flag of Free Trade Waving High’
The European Union and Japan said on Friday that they had finalized a sweeping deal that would create a free trade area covering more than a quarter of the world’s economy, pushing against rising calls for protectionism in much of the West. Leaders of both parties to the agreement trumpeted its strategic, as well as economic, importance. That it was announced just hours after Britain and the European Union broke a deadlock to start a new round of talks over that country’s withdrawal from the bloc only heightened its symbolic impact. The so-called economic partnership agreement, which would be one of the largest ... (full story)
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