>Jaishankar said at the IIC-Bruegel seminar in New Delhi: “On the FTA, I think it is really time we get along with it.” The India-EU FTA talks have been going on for the last 15 years or so.
>Jaishankar’s positive signal came on a day President von der Leyen said in Brussels: “Later this month, we will travel for the first ever College visit to India to deepen our partnership right across the board.” The College she was referring to is the “College of Commissioners” — 27 commissioners from all 27 member states of the EU, each assigned a specific area. Such visits by the full European Commission are not routine.
>Underlining that a stronger India-EU relationship can be an “important stabilising factor” in a world that promises to be “so volatile and uncertain”, he said the relationship between the two sides is more important now than ever before. “Deeper India-EU collaboration is clearly in our mutual benefit,” he said.
>Jaishankar said: “We can all feel intuitively that the world is on the cusp of a big change… Politics is only the tip of the iceberg. Whether it is energy or connectivity, mobility or technology, major shifts await us
>The world is currently witnessing two major conflicts, and these are often presented as matters of principle. We are told that the very future of the world order is at stake. Yet, the record shows how selectively and unevenly these principles have been applied,” Jaishankar said.
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FTA is not enough,
I say open THE BORDERS!!!
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Trump on his way to become the Dr. Manhattan of free trade
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>Jaishankar said at the IIC-Bruegel seminar in New Delhi: “On the FTA, I think it is really time we get along with it.” The India-EU FTA talks have been going on for the last 15 years or so.
>Jaishankar’s positive signal came on a day President von der Leyen said in Brussels: “Later this month, we will travel for the first ever College visit to India to deepen our partnership right across the board.” The College she was referring to is the “College of Commissioners” — 27 commissioners from all 27 member states of the EU, each assigned a specific area. Such visits by the full European Commission are not routine.
>Underlining that a stronger India-EU relationship can be an “important stabilising factor” in a world that promises to be “so volatile and uncertain”, he said the relationship between the two sides is more important now than ever before. “Deeper India-EU collaboration is clearly in our mutual benefit,” he said.
>Jaishankar said: “We can all feel intuitively that the world is on the cusp of a big change… Politics is only the tip of the iceberg. Whether it is energy or connectivity, mobility or technology, major shifts await us
>The world is currently witnessing two major conflicts, and these are often presented as matters of principle. We are told that the very future of the world order is at stake. Yet, the record shows how selectively and unevenly these principles have been applied,” Jaishankar said.
FTA is not enough,
I say open THE BORDERS!!!
Trump on his way to become the Dr. Manhattan of free trade