23rd EU-Japan Business Round Table Annual Meeting

Brussels & online - 04/11/2021 - The 23rd annual meeting of the EU-Japan Business Round Table (BRT) took place, with the strap line, "The EU & Japan Together - Leading the way for a more digital and greener future".

For documents, photos and other material from the annual meeting please see the main 2021 webpage.

Coverage of the 9 February 2022 handover of the BRT's 2021 Recommendations to PM Kishida:

• Reports in Japanese and in English on the webpage of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Report in French on the website of the Japanese Embassy in France
• Headline in English on the website of the Government of Japan
• Report and photo in the EBC Newsletter of 16/02/2022
• LinkedIn post by Michael Mroczek, President, European Business Council in Japan (EBC)
• Tweet by Philippe de Taxis du Poët, EU-Japan Centre Managing Director (EU-side) and Minister Counsellor at the EU Delegation in Japan
• LinkedIn post by Simon Craig Gray, EU-Japan Centre Deputy Director
• Brief reports (reproduced below) in English and Japanese in the 10/02/2022 "Email Bulletin" from the EU Delegation to Japan:

LinkedIn blog entries referring to the BRT annual meeting on 4 November were posted by:

• Gary Litman, Senior Vice President, Global Initiatives at U.S. Chamber of Commerce and by the Int'l Policy Coalition for Sustainable Growth both previewing the trilateral EU-Japan-U.S. discussion
• Alain Dardy, Representative Director, Energy Pool Japan wrote an article after the meeting
• Benjamin Moutte-Caruel, Director of Legal & Government Affairs at Rakuten France wrote an article after the meeting

 
Other articles about the 2021 annual meeting

Various articles / posts refer to the annual meeting:

• The transcript of Ambassador Masaki's remarks to the BRT annual meeting, published on the Mission of Japan to the EU's website.
• Commissioner Breton's participation in the annual meeting was announced on the Commission's website.
• "BusinessEurope Headlines No. 2021-33" of 12 November 2021. BusinessEurope also previewed the meeting in its event calendar.
• "Parliamentary Vice-Minister Iwata Attends the Annual EU-Japan Business Round Table" article on the METI website (a Japanese version also exists)
• "Ready for Transformation" article on page 35 of the November 2021 edition of the EBC's EuroBiz Japan magazine
• Report on the JBCE website

 
References to the BRT annual meeting on Twitter

A selection of the tweets sent by the European Commission, the Mission of Japan to the EU, BRT member companies, the BRT Secretariat at the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, and others can be found below. Most of these tweets can also be viewed on twitter

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