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India-EU FTA will lead to new wave of investments
21-Nov-2009
A new wave of investments from India to Europe and from Europe to India is likely to follow the India-EU free trade agreement which would take the bilateral trade to 160 billion euro by 2015, says the Indian Ambassador to France Ranjan Mathai.
BUSINESSEUROPE and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise statement on the EU-India relationship
12-Nov-2009
Statement from the 9th EU-India Business Summit organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, The Confederation of Swedish Enterprises and BUSINESSEUROPE on 6 November 2009
EU tramples on India’s poor
9-Nov-2009 The Guardian
The EU is pushing an unsavoury free trade deal that would force India to give up control of its banking sector and drugs industry
Labour pangs likely to hold up India-EU free-trade agreement
8-Nov-2009
The fate of the India-EU trade and investment agreement—which seeks to further open up bilateral markets for goods, investments and services—may hang in balance as India and the EU lock horns over including labour standards in the pact.
India-EU summit on Friday
3-Nov-2009 IANS
The daylong India-EU summit is expected to give a decisive political push to negotiations over the long-deliberated, broadbased trade and investment pacts that are currently dragging due to differences over the EU’s bid to bring in non-trade issues into the talks.
Bumpy road ahead for India-EU FTA
31-Oct-2009 Economic Times
Sources say that the two sides are nowhere close to an agreement.
EU/India: Commission in new free trade push with New Delhi
27-Oct-2009 Europolitics
Following the conclusion of an FTA with South Korea, the European Commission’s Chief Negotiator, Ignacio Garcia Bercero, has stepped up efforts to reinvigorate the trade negotiations with India. However, two key contentious issues are standing in the way of further progress, namely tariff liberalisation and public procurement.
Lack of transparency and debate in India-EU free trade agreement
22-Oct-2009 The Hindu
The total lack of transparency, democratic process and public debate on the India-EU FTA highlighted
EU-India’s free trade deal is still in the talking stage
19-Oct-2009 New Europe
Two years after the European Union and India began negotiating a Free Trade Agreement that has enemies in both places, the talks are continuing with the hope of concluding by the end of the year, but not in time for the EU-India Summit in New Delhi on Nov. 6.
EU favours FTA with India
11-Sep-2009 The Hindu
“Real negotiations between the two sides have not started yet,” says the head of the delegation of the European Commission in India
EU wants pact to include govt procurement
11-Sep-2009 Business Standard
Ahead of the next round of talks on a bilateral trade treaty with India, the European Union today said it was keen that the comprehensive pact included government procurement agreement, which India has resisted so far.
EU seeks to settle trade row with India amicably
6-Sep-2009
The European Union on Friday said it would prefer to resolve two commercial disputes with India without engaging in a legal battle at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The first dispute involves seizure of Indian generic drugs in transit at some EU-based ports, including Amsterdam, which were bound for certain third world countries, on the grounds of patents infringement.
India-EU FTA suffers the ennui of vested interests
8-Jul-2009 Business Standard
Even the most optimistic amongst those involved in the process admit the talks to be in a deadlock that neither side has the political will to break.
EU demands in EU-India FTA could adversely affect access to drugs
29-Jun-2009 TWN
The European Union’s demands on India to take on higher intellectual property (IP) standards, if adopted, could spell disaster for the supply of low-cost generic medicines, undermine India’s development and set a significant precedent for the future of IPR protection globally, cautioned Dr Carlos M. Correa, an expert on IP and the WTO TRIPS Agreement.
“India and Eu’s combined strategy for the free-trade pact worsen its position at WTO”
24-Jun-2009 Institute of International Trade
The most affected from the EU-India FTA will be India’s dairy farming sector, where regularly five million women and 15 million men work to meet their daily needs.
Vicious sting in the tail of FTAs
24-Jun-2009 Business Standard
What is slowly emerging is the beginning of a composite oppositition to FTAs in India.
Say cheese to Brussels
18-Jun-2009 DTE
A free-trade pact with EU will weaken India’s stance at WTO
The EU-India FTA: Critical considerations in a time of crisis
4-Jun-2009 CENTAD
The paper broadly examines the core trade interests of the EU and India, the content of the negotiations and outlines some key concerns of a potential deal for India in the areas of goods, services and investments, intellectual property rights and government procurement.
Unequal partners
4-Jun-2009 Women on Air
Conversations on the EU-India FTA
India keen on fast conclusion of FTA with EU
4-Jun-2009 Live Mint
India on Wednesday said it is committed to expeditiously conclude a free trade agreement with the European Union (EU) and is expecting some headway when the next round of talks take place here in July.