Marking the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Delegation of the European Union to Japan 🇯🇵 駐日欧州連合代表部🇪🇺 #EU50

Prediction by extrapolation is inane.

I’m inclined to say Marshall Plan proves the opposite.

Great to celebrate the entry into force of the EU NZ FTA with Swedish friends involved in the process and EU Ambassadors. Thx also to Pernod Ricard for leading a Z wine tasting as part of the event. Dag Juhlin-Dannfelt Anders Ahnlid Hosuk Lee-Makiyama New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade NZTE New Zealand Wine Europe

The EU anti-circumvention investigation into biodiesel imports from China and the UK has been formally terminated.

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Remember the outrage among EU pundits when China 'didn’t invite' EU Commission President to the private dinner in Guangzhou last year? Surprised there’s not much outrage this time when France snubs President VdL for the tete-a-tete in the French Pyrenées.

Can’t help but conclude we’ve reached peak meaninglessness when Biden’s cabinet secretaries smile and wish us a Happy World Trade Month.

Is regulation driving Europe to irrelevance? Yes, according to the chief executive of Ericsson on.ft.com/4blc1s5

EU has capacity to produce 2.5x domestic demand in cars. US has similar capacities in petro-chem, pharma. There’s an issue w/ overcapacities in China NDRC must address. Problem is not export orientation but whether overcapacities are policy-induced.

Web4.0 is built on European research and engineering. The actual policy question is whether the EU gets to reap the profits, or will it be commercialised elsewhere?

As JPY depreciates, we'll see stupid arguments that TSMC is building fabs in countries with 'artificially cheap' currencies. As if forced knowledge-transfer into the middle of the desert in Arizona and coercing companies to work with their US rivals was ever going to work.

China is struggling overcapacities in its strategic emerging industries, but this is not the right argument. EU has capacity to produce 2.5 times domestic demand as we cater for a global market + some structural overcapacities, but not necessarily policy-induced.

Sorry to fuss, but I don't think her campaign serves her well. Slogan, palete, design language undermine her competitive differentiation, which was always the dignity of an incumbent. Also photos, copy chosen by someone who must secretly dislike her.
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Japan Tourism Agency.

Haven't made my mind up on what it means but Chairman Xi not only meeting people (like a US state secretary) who's way below his paygrade as head of state. He's also doing pedestrian work like travelling to places that normally handled by the Premier, the head of govt.

China lifts the 'Pelosi bans' against Taiwan. There are lessons here for G7: Chinese retaliation rarely lasts for very long and is not intended to kill you. They get annoyed, and we all move on.

I am not an expert on diplomatic protocol but a farewell ceremony is typically not required even at state visits.

EU is running a 160bn trade surplus on motor vehicles, which is also world’s largest surplus of any category. Despite struggling w low utilisation rates in some MS. No wonder Brussels was reluctant to launch the EV investigation.