V4 Want Free Trade Zone Between EU and Japan

People ♦ Published: June 17, 2013; 14:00 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Visegrad Four Group (V4), which consists of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, support the creation of a free trade zone between the European Union and Japan.

V4 Want Free Trade Zone Between EU and Japan / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Only one day before his resignation, outgoing Prime Minister Petr Necas of the Czech Republic announced to journalists in Warsaw that he and his counterparts supported this idea. Earlier Necas had met with the Prime Minister of the other Visegrad countries and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Warsaw Castle to discuss this matter. “We are supporter of such agreements,” Necas…