{"id":122043,"date":"2021-05-09T14:39:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T06:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122043"},"modified":"2021-05-09T14:39:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T06:39:53","slug":"eu-and-india-to-restart-stalled-trade-deal-talks-von-der-leyen-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122043","title":{"rendered":"EU and India to restart stalled trade deal talks, von der Leyen says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/world\/EU-and-India-to-restart-stalled-trade-deal-talks-von-der-Leyen-says-1255450?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/738\/73860226.295.jpg\" alt=\"India is currently the world's second-most populous country after China\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>India is currently the world&#8217;s second-most populous country after China<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRUSSELS, May 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The European Union and India have agreed to pick back up talks on a free trade deal that were frozen in 2013, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has indicated.<br><br>&#8220;Between the EU and India there is a close relationship but also a lot of untapped potentials,&#8221; von der Leyen said on Saturday before talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leading officials.<br><br>&#8220;The most untapped potential is in trade and investment. Therefore I&#8217;m looking forward to &#8230; [restarting] negotiations on a free trade agreement, negotiations on an investment protection agreement and &#8230; on geographical indications,&#8221; the EU executive chief said.<br><br>India is currently the world&#8217;s second-most populous country after China, with more than 1.3 billion inhabitants, but is only the 10th largest trading partner for the EU.<br><br>In 2007, the two sides began discussions on a wide-reaching trade and investment agreement, including more market access and fewer tariffs.<br><br>But several disagreements, such as over Indian tariffs on cars and wine and over EU labour market restrictions on Indians, brought the negotiations to an end in 2013. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is currently the world&#8217;s second-most populous country after China BRUSSELS, May 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The European Union and India have agreed to pick back up talks on a free trade deal that were frozen in 2013, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has indicated. &#8220;Between the EU and India there is a close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":122045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122043"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}