India-EU trade deal, Jan. 27 -- Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal was asked on Tuesday whether US President Donald Trump had acted as a 'unifier' in pushing India and the European Union towards the ambitious free trade agreement that has just been finalised.

Noting that both India and several European countries had been hit by US tariffs, a journalist from Euronews asked at a press conference how much of a unifying factor - beyond the deal's win-win nature - President Trump had been.

Both India and European countries were hit by tariffs, a jounalist asked Goyal at a press conference on Tuesday. How much of a unifier beyond the win-win was President Donald Trump, the journalist asked.

"I do not think we even discussed this at any poi...