November 5, 2025<\/p>\n
NEW DELHI<\/strong> \u2013 India and the European Union (EU) have intensified trade talks as Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal met with EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maros Sefcovic in New Delhi.<\/p>\n The meeting focused on reviewing progress on the India\u2013EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and strengthening bilateral trade and investment relations.<\/p>\n Taking to social media, Goyal said, \u201cHad a productive meeting with @MarosSefcovic, EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, and @CHansenEU, Commissioner for Agriculture and Food. Discussed strengthening the India\u2013EU trade and investment ties, advancing the FTA, and deepening cooperation across priority areas. Both sides are committed to balanced and mutually beneficial outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n A senior team of EU negotiators is currently in New Delhi from 3 to 7 November 2025 for discussions with their Indian counterparts on the proposed FTA.<\/p>\n The visit follows Minister Goyal\u2019s official trip to Brussels on 27\u201328 October 2025, where he held forward-looking discussions with Maros Sefcovic, the European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security.<\/p>\n Separately, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jitin Prasada held a bilateral meeting with Romania\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Oana-Silvia \u021aoiu, in Bucharest. The discussions focused on expanding trade, attracting investment, and strengthening resilient supply chains within the broader India\u2013EU economic framework.<\/p>\n During the meeting, both sides agreed to work towards concluding, within this year, a fair, balanced, and mutually beneficial India\u2013EU Free Trade Agreement, in line with the political direction guiding the ongoing negotiations.<\/p>\n Notably, India\u2019s exports to Romania crossed USD 1.03 billion in FY 2024\u201325, while overall bilateral trade reached about USD 2.98 billion in FY 2023\u201324.<\/p>\n Both sides agreed to deepen supply-chain linkages in priority sectors such as petroleum products, engineering goods, pharmaceuticals, and ceramics, and to facilitate collaboration in standards, testing, and investment partnerships to enhance market access on both sides.<\/p>\n They also agreed to work together towards diversifying production and building stronger, more resilient supply chains as trusted partners, ensuring stability and confidence for businesses in both nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"November 5, 2025 NEW DELHI \u2013 India and the European Union (EU) have intensified trade talks as Union…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[89728,2000,299,5187,1699,730,96150,1201],"class_list":{"0":"post-549622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-economic-affairs","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-india","14":"tag-the-statesman","15":"tag-trade"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115494421002757518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549622","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=549622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}