{"id":469979,"date":"2025-10-03T02:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469979\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T02:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:38:11","slug":"5-things-to-watch-as-eu-india-trade-talks-enter-home-stretch-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469979\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things to watch as EU-India trade talks enter home stretch\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf we look at what is left, it\u2019s the most important stuff \u2026 those are exactly the same things that we were dealing with in 2012, 2013, when the negotiations derailed last time,\u201d said Nicolas K\u00f6hler-Suzuki, associate researcher at the Jacques Delors Institute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Ukraine isn\u2019t making things any easier.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    While Brussels is counting on India for its diversification push, it won\u2019t find it easy to remain a credible threat to Russia while doing more business with a country that maintains historically close ties with Moscow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    An EU official, granted anonymity to discuss closed-door discussions, conceded \u201cone of the biggest issues where [the EU and India] have differences is Ukraine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

    The world’s most populous country sent 65 troops this month to join Russia\u2019s annual Zapad military exercise<\/a>, in which the Kremlin simulated a nuclear attack on NATO countries. At a recent summit in China, Modi held hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin as they approached their host, President Xi Jinping.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \"\"At a recent summit in China, Narendra Modi held hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin as they approached their host, President Xi Jinping.\u00a0| Pool photo by Suo Takekuma via AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

    Trump, meanwhile, is calling on the EU to hit New Delhi with tariffs as high as 100 percent for enabling Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \u201cIt’s not all joyous music and singing and dancing. There is an acknowledgement that we need to do more to bridge gaps where they are,\u201d the official said, referring to a communication on India the EU executive<\/a> put out in mid-September.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf we look at what is left, it\u2019s the most important stuff \u2026 those are exactly the same…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[3971,156508,768,2813,26258,346,1395,2001,7478,12495,27332,32,2000,299,5187,1699,7062,129925,475,730,110719,660,22708,2597,22817,5111,1217,48,3695,479,1200,1201,657,49,1220,333,335,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-469979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-angelika-niebler","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-carbon","12":"tag-carbon-border-tax","13":"tag-cars","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-communications","16":"tag-dairy","17":"tag-development","18":"tag-dispute-settlement","19":"tag-donald-trump","20":"tag-eu","21":"tag-europe","22":"tag-european","23":"tag-european-union","24":"tag-grains","25":"tag-ignacio-garcia-bercero","26":"tag-imports","27":"tag-india","28":"tag-jacques-delors","29":"tag-kremlin","30":"tag-mercosur","31":"tag-military","32":"tag-narendra-modi","33":"tag-parliament","34":"tag-protectionism","35":"tag-rights","36":"tag-sustainability","37":"tag-tariffs","38":"tag-tax","39":"tag-trade","40":"tag-ukraine","41":"tag-united-states","42":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","43":"tag-vladimir-putin","44":"tag-war-in-ukraine","45":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}