Annual Meeting 2019 : Cuttings

"Handover of the 2019 BRT Recommendations to PM Abe"

On 18 September, the BRT's 2019 Recommendations were formally submitted to PM Shinzo Abe by BRT co-Chairman Masaki Sakuyama and by Michael Mroczek (Member of the EU-side of the BRT).

The handover was reported on two official Japanese Government websites and on various other websites:

• On the Official Website of the Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet
  • in Japanese
  • in English
• On the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
  • in English
  • in Japanese
• On the LinkedIn page of the EBC in Japan, on the websites of Okuno & Partners and of the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD Europe)

It was also reported on twitter:

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"The EU & Japan - Acting together in a global world"

The 21st Annual Meeting of the EU-Japan Business Round Table took place at the Palais d'Egmont in Brussels on Wednesday 15th May. Entitled, The EU & Japan - Acting together in a global world, it received a lot of (social) media coverage. 

For documents, photos and other material from the annual meeting please see the main 2019 webpage.

References to the BRT annual meeting in Press Releases and Articles

1. The European Commission's daily Midday Express briefing included an article linking the BRT, the EU-Japan EPA and the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation (the BRT's Secretariat):

2. The European Commission's Commissioners' Weekly Activities calendar for the week beginning 13 May 2019

Mercredi 15 mai 2019

Mr Jyrki Katainen participates in the EU-Japan Business Roundtable discussion, in Brussels.
Ms Cecilia Malmström delivers a keynote address at the EU-Japan Business Round Table, in Brussels.
Mr Phil Hogan addresses the EU-Japan Business Round Table, in Brussels.
Ms Elżbieta Bieńkowska delivers a speech at the EU-Japan business round table, in Brussels.

3. Issue 66 of the EU-Japan Newsletter (the June 2019 edition) has a 3-page article and montage of pictures and tweets from the 2019 annual meeting.

4. References to the BRT annual meeting on LinkedIn

LinkedIn blog entries referring to the BRT were posted by:

• Antoine Larpin - Government Affairs Representative at Panasonic
• Benedict Townsend - Vice-President, Head of EU Affairs at JTI (Japan Tobacco International)
• Marcus Schürmann - Delegate / CEO at the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan
• Yann Le Tallec - Director Government and Public Affairs, EMEA
• the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
• the European Business Council in Japan (EBC)
• the Japan Business Council in Europe (JBCE)

5. Other articles about the 2019 BRT annual meeting

Article referring to the annual meeting:

• "Grundsatzrede von Staatssekretär Kenji Yamada bei der 21. Zusammenkunft des EU-Japan Business Round Table in Brüssel am 15. 05. 2019" - German-language article on the website of the Japanese Embassy in Germany
• "Helping SMEs Take Advantage of the EU-Japan EPA" - report on the SMEunited website about the participation of its Secretary General in the annual meeting's session on SMEs and the EPA
• "EBC Update - Bucking regressive trends" on page 31 of the June 2019 edition of EUROBIZ JAPAN - the magazine of the European Business Council in Japan

6. References to the BRT annual meeting on Twitter

A selection of the tweets sent by the European Commission, Government of Japan, BRT member companies, the BRT Secretariat at the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, and others can be found below. 

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