Europe and Japan in a Changing World: Bridging Partners for Stability in the Indo-Pacific

The Japan Chair at the CSDS organised an event entitled “Europe and Japan in a Changing World: Bridging Partners for Stability in the Indo-Pacific. The event, organised in Tokyo, took place under the Indo-Pacific Futures Platform (INFORM), a two-year project supported by the European Union (EU) that sought to develop a common reflection on future challenges impacting the Indo-Pacific region. The main deliverables of the project were the publication of two studies on regional security and defence trends and digital governance and partnerships. Both studies fed into the discussions held in several closed-door and public meetings held with European and regional experts, as well as EU officials, the private sector and civil society.

The public conference: “Europe and Japan in a Changing World”, was a deliverable under the INFORM project that took place in Tokyo in October 2022. The aim of this conference was to gather the insights of the local expert community and to disseminate the findings of the INFORM project. The public event counted on the participation of Minister Hayashi, Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister, and Mr. Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs at the European External Action Service (EEAS).

The event can be watched in four parts on YouTube here:

Part 1 – Welcoming remarks

Part 2 – Keynote speeches

Part 3 – Expert remarks

Part 4 – Panel discussion