Free Trade Agreement between India, European Union to be concluded by end of this 12 months: PM Modi | India News

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday stated the unprecedented go to of the European Commission president and the College of Commissioners to India will conclude a long-pending free commerce settlement between the European Union and India by this 12 months’s end.
“This is not just the first India visit by the European Commission, but also its first such comprehensive engagement in any country. This is also among the first foreign visits of the Commission’s new regime,” PM Modi stated.

“This is one of the early visits of the (European) Commission’s new tenure. Over two decades of strategic partnership between India and the EU is natural and organic, and in its foundation are trust and democratic values … We have had sincere and meaningful discussions, yesterday on various issues. We have asked our teams to work on a mutually benefit Free Trade Agreement and to realise it by the end of this year,” PM Modi stated.