EU-India Free Trade Talks: In Whose Interest?

Article no: EN20080210-Article-1.3-2007

EU-India Free Trade Talks: In Whose Interest?

?The Indian middle class is hungry for exciting food and drink experiences? ? at least according to Mariann Fischer Boel, the EU Commissioner for Agriculture. When it is signed and sealed by the end of 2008, the free trade agreement between the EU and India is supposed to help quench this appetite. The EU wants to export wine, whisky, olive oil and 40 types of fish, among other things, to India when the customs barriers fall. Yet to whom such treaties are really helpful, Christa Wichterich asks.