EU-CPTPP talks highlight shared goals and stubborn obstacles

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Japan Times, July 8, 2025
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For all the attention to deepening security ties between Europe and the Indo-Pacific, the better focus belongs on economic cooperation.

That’s the relationship with the greatest potential impact. With the world’s biggest economies actively working to undermine the international economic order, it’s essential that Brussels and European Union member governments work as closely as they can with like-minded Indo-Pacific partners to check that behavior.


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