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European Policy Centre · European Union · EU and India clinch the 'mother of all' trade deals
Argues the deal was sealed by geopolitics, not commerce: Trump's tariff threats and a more coercive China pushed Brussels and Delhi together, with the FTA paired to a security and defence partnership covering maritime, cyber and defence-industrial cooperation.
“Trump's renewed threats of tariffs have forced the EU to confront the limits of its reliance on the US.”