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Summary: With a long national holiday coming up in Japan, it’s all go for Shinzo Abe – we ask about his negotiations with the EU and what he’ll be hoping for as he heads to the US. Plus: smaller economies start to think twice about China’s Belt and Road Initiative, we ask how the French public responded to Macron’s pledges and is a snafu in an Australian newspaper printer a sign of things to come?