Over 400 years after Europeans received exclusive trading rights in Japan, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned the favor last week with a nine-day, six-nation tour of Europe.
Last week’s decision by Yanukovich was not a surprise. Ukraine’s failure to meet European requirements for an association agreement should not be seen as the end of the line.
After ten years of negotiations the Doha Development Round died on April 29, 2011. A look at why what Doha was trying to do was important, and how things may continue without it.