Brussels has not only pressed the accelerator on free trade with Mercosur and looking at South America. It also does so by looking at South Asia, specifically India, where after a whopping 18 years of negotiations, just one year has been enough with Donald Trump back in the White House carrying out his tariff war.
The figures for the commercial monster emerging from this agreement are overwhelming. We are talking about a firm that unites the second and fourth economies in the world and that opens the door to the creation of a market with 2,000 million potential consumers.
The pact was announced this morning by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who on her social networks has pointed out, openly, that “we have closed the mother of all agreements.” He also highlighted that “we have created a free trade zone of two billion people, from which both parties will benefit”, but pointing out that “this is just the beginning” and that “we will grow our strategic relationship to make it even stronger.”
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