EU and India agree to resume long-stalled trade talks

The European Union and India agreed to restart talks on a free trade deal that have been frozen since 2013.

The European Union and India have agreed to resume stalled free trade negotiations and seek closer cooperation to combat climate change at a virtual summit, as concerns about China bring Brussels and New Delhi closer. Partly overshadowed by the COVID-19 crisis in India, the meeting on Saturday brought together Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and all of the bloc’s 27 leaders for the first time in eight years in a sign of the EU’s renewed interest in the Indo-Pacific region. Past EU-India summits have involved only the Indian prime minister and the EU’s chief executive and chairman.