Spardo:
cav551:
I would be interested to hear how the EU have reconciled Japan’s ban on Islam with the free movement of people prerequisite for a tariff free trade deal. Or do such things just go out of the window when it suits the EU?I think the free movement of people is a condition of membership of the EU, not between countries that have advantages and reciprical deals with it. Hence the chance of a deal to be concluded with the UK after Brexit will not include free movement.
In any case I don’t think Muslims are banned as such in Japan. It is true they are monitored closely because of the association with terrorism, just as they are in other countries, like Britain and the US for example. But there is a small Japanese Muslim community just as there is a Christian one. They don’t kick their own citizens out, whatever their religion, as long as they behave, as all Japanese are required to behave.
Why in that case is the EU refusing to talk about such a ‘reciprocal deal’ as part of the Brexit ‘negotiations’ from the start and to date ?.Also don’t think the ‘deal’ with Japan means ECJ juristiction over Japanese law and EU fishing rights to apply in the Pacific.
As for Japanese ‘citizens’ unlike here Nationality law is based on the principle of Jus Sanguinis not Jus Soli so the definition of ‘own’ is obviously a case of comparing apples with oranges in that case.