{"id":2157,"date":"2026-01-25T19:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:41:03","slug":"india-eu-fta-were-nearing-the-conclusion-of-our-negotiations-says-eu-commissioner-for-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=2157","title":{"rendered":"India-EU FTA: &#039;We&#039;re nearing the conclusion of our negotiations,&#039; says EU Commissioner for Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p>Maros Sefcovic, the EU Commissioner for Trade, said on Sunday that India and the European Union (EU) are nearing the conclusion of the free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations. The update comes ahead of the EU-India summit, which will be hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to be held in Delhi on January 27.\u00a0<\/p> <p>Sharing a picture with Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, Sefcovic wrote on X: &#8220;A big pleasure to be in India. Our 10th in-person engagement with Minister\u00a0@PiyushGoyal &#8211; and I&#8217;m confident to say we&#8217;re nearing the conclusion of our FTA negotiations. The cumulation of an intense past year &#8211; likely my most frequent trade engagement &#8211; reflecting its importance.&#8221;<\/p> <div class=\"embedcode\"> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">A big pleasure to be in India. Our 10th in-person engagement with Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiyushGoyal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PiyushGoyal<\/a> &#8211; and I&#8217;m confident to say we&#8217;re nearing the conclusion of our FTA negotiations.<\/p> <p>The cumulation of an intense past year &#8211; likely my most frequent trade engagement &#8211; reflecting its importance. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4nEDhKUWwC\">pic.twitter.com\/4nEDhKUWwC<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa (@MarosSefcovic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarosSefcovic\/status\/2015362276358853015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <\/div> <p>Meanwhile, the European Council shared the agenda of the EU-India Summit to be held on January 27.\u00a0<\/p> <p><em><strong>(This is a breaking news story. Check this space for more)<\/strong><\/em><\/p> <\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>India EU FTA, India-EU FTA, when will India EU FTA be signed, when will India EU-FTA be signed#IndiaEU #FTA #039We039re #nearing #conclusion #negotiations039 #Commissioner #Trade1769341263<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maros Sefcovic, the EU Commissioner for Trade, said on Sunday that India and the European Union (EU) are nearing the conclusion of the free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations. The update comes ahead of the EU-India summit, which will be hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to be held in Delhi on January 27.\u00a0 Sharing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5736,5740,5738,4157,4147,4342,5737,5739,895,4937],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-039we039re","tag-commissioner","tag-conclusion","tag-fta","tag-india-eu-fta","tag-indiaeu","tag-nearing","tag-negotiations039","tag-trade","tag-when-will-india-eu-fta-be-signed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}