Fukuda, EU leaders agree to boost cooperation in climate-change fight
Japan and the European Union agreed Wednesday to step up cooperation in the fight against global warming, calling for a "highly ambitious and binding international approach" to cut greenhouse gas emissions. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, who now serves as president-in-office of the European Council, met Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda at his official residence in Tokyo in an annual meeting between top EU and Japanese leaders.