‘Mother of all deals’: EU and India sign free trade agreement
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It surprised me when I read this in the news today. I never heard a bit about it, and now it's signed?
Meanwhile, the Mercosur trade agreement was negotiated for years and widely reported.
Edit: According to Reuters, this deal was negotiated for two decades.
nothing is certain until it’s ratified by EU member states, the European parliament and the Indian cabinet.
The indoeuropean trade deal
Wait for the farmers-controlled parliament in 3...2... (even if, reading the details, this one is touching agriculture much less, but they don't care).
Great, cheap labor is that what european corporations need.
Maybe average person will compete with people who will agree to sleep in work hotels, but corporations and billionaires will get extra income 👍
Free way for indian cheap made stuff not following EU production and contamination standards, instead of supporting EU self sufficiency, very cool
Also, Europeans do have to keep paying to send stuff there, so the deal is mostly one-direction only
While you can disagree on economics terms, this prejudice against an entire people ("importing these humans") is not acceptable (or specify that you only mean the people who commit the crimes).
Do we have to specify anything nowadays? I do not think so. It is very clear that I mean the criminals, because I mentioned countries such as Canada. If you know what happens there, you know what I mean. The Indian Government is not a friend, because they use their own people as agents to kill politicians that oppose Modi. This is the Russian way.
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/trnsprnc/brfng-mtrls/prlmntry-bndrs/20250226/08-en.aspx