(Finance) – “We share with the Japan the analysis that fromUkraine atIndo-Pacific the world is a theater of security. And also in Vilnius, the G7 – under the Japanese presidency – and the European Union made it very clear that security commitments towards Ukraine are vital. We stand by Ukraine, as we have done since the beginning ofRussian aggression“. So the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenin a press conference following the meeting with the Japanese prime minister Kishida.
“At the same time, with ours strategy Indo-Pacific, we are also increasing our engagement in the region. Because we know that the Indo-Pacific security and the safety European they are indivisible. And I am delighted that we are launching a strategic dialogue to coordinate on these unprecedented challenges to peace and security,” she added.
“We have seen outages in the supply chain caused by the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We have seen cyber attacks and economic coercion. All of this was a wake-up call for us – continued von der Leyen -. Economic security is vital and a common concern. We have agreed to coordinate on these issues at the G7 level. And now we are also starting a bilateral dialogue on the safety economic“. “One of our goals is to reduce excessive dependence on a handful of providers, many of them based in China, for products vital to our economies. For example, critical raw materials. I am very pleased that we are concluding a cooperation agreement on raw materials between the European Commission and Japan. The same goes for i semiconductors“, he stressed.
“On the side of the European Union, we have agreed to lift the remaining restrictive measures on imports related to the accident of Fukushima – von der Leyen then announced –. We made this decision on the basis of science, on the basis of evidence and on the basis of the evaluation of the International Agency foratomic energy. And we have also agreed to resolve several other commercial issues during this year, in particular the access of our agricultural products to the Japanese market”. News also coming in the field of digital. “We will work on the 6G – he said –, we will work on high-performance and quantum computing and information security. So the whole agenda of the Digital Partnerships it grows and becomes more and more dense and concrete. Above all, we will cooperate on theartificial intelligence“.
The alliance between Japan and the EU on the subject of transition energy. “We have ours Green alliance. It is the first green alliance that the European Union has ever concluded, here with Japan. And now we are collaborating to spread therenewable energy, especially offshore wind and clean hydrogen, in Europe and Japan”, explained the EU president. “It was an excellent summit, with tangible results. We need each other more than ever for our security and economic resilience. And we are closer than ever,” concluded von der Leyen.