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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

‘Mother of all deals’: EU and India sign free trade agreement

Narendra Modi (centre) raising his arms together with Ursula von der Leyen (right) and the European Council president, António Costa.
Narendra Modi (centre) with Ursula von der Leyen (right) and the European Council president, António Costa. Photograph: Rajat Gupta/EPA

India and the EU have finalised a landmark free trade agreement, which the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, hailed as the “mother of all deals”.

The agreement comes after almost two decades of on-off negotiations between India and the EU, which vastly accelerated in the past six months and were finally concluded late on Monday night.

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