EU and India sign trade deal, 15 years in the making, ushering in a 'multidimensional relationship'

Delano D'Souza welcomes Dr Chietigj Bajpaee, Senior Research fellow for South Asia in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House. The recently agreed EU–India trade deal represents a geopolitical and economic milestone. After 15 years of negotiations, the agreement aims to reduce tariffs on a wide array of goods, deepen economic ties, and broaden cooperation beyond trade into mobility and technology. All the while, politically sensitive sectors like agriculture were excluded and broader strategic tensions...