Are India-EU Free Trade Agreement Talks Really Moving? Old Issues Back On New India’s Table

PM Narendra Modi with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, President of the European Council, during the G20 Summit held in New Delhi in September 2023. ( Image Source :X )

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar earlier this week addressed a European business leaders' conclave when he stressed on the importance of boosting trade in goods and services between India and the European Union (EU), a 27-nation bloc operating as a single market, by way of concluding the decades-old pending negotiations for having a free trade agreement. The talks have missed several deadlines even as they witnessed innumerable change of negotiators on both sides, underwent nomenclature