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“The mother of all deals” is a transformative milestone in Indo-EU trade relations. Elaborate on the new Security and Defence partnership.

  • UPSC 2026
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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At the 16th India–EU Summit in New Delhi on 27 January 2026, the two sides concluded the free trade agreement that Ursula von der Leyen and Piyush Goyal both called "the mother of all deals": a market of some two billion people, after talks launched in 2007. They also signed an India–EU Security and Defence…

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  • Why security followed trade
  • What the partnership contains
  • How new is it?
  • Limits
  • Conclusion
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