New Delhi, April 12 -- No self-respecting nation can have a free trade agreement with the European Union unless the latter stops superimposing its non-trade agenda into bilateral trade negotiations, India's commerce minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday hinting that New Delhi will not sign any FTA with the EU if it insists on including matters such as the carbon tax and deforestation regulations in the pact.
Replying to a specific question on the timeline of the India-EU FTA negotiations at the 9th Global Technology Summit co-hosted by Carnegie India and the ministry of external affairs (MEA), Goyal said: "My sense is, we'll be able to complete most of the discussions quite amicably."
"There will be two areas on which European Union will h...