EU and India announce 'mother of all trade deals'
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 β’ 8.3K Ratings
ποΈ 27 January 2026
β±οΈ 29 minutes
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Summary
Two decades in the making, the EU-India agreement will allow free trade of goods between the bloc of 27 European states and the world's most populous country. Together, they make up nearly 25% of global gross domestic product and a market of two billion people. The deal will see a number of huge tariff cuts across a range of goods and services, and a joint security partnership.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 16 hours GMT on Tuesday the 27th of January. |
| 0:17.9 | The EU and India hail their new trade agreement as the mother of all deals. |
| 0:23.3 | Following Iran's violent crackdown on protests, doctors and nurses who cared for the injured |
| 0:28.4 | are now being arrested. And Spain is to grant legal status to half a million undocumented |
| 0:34.1 | migrants. Also in this podcast, a new AI project in Britain |
| 0:40.2 | helps schoolchildren connect with Holocaust survivors. |
| 0:43.4 | We were only two children, my brother and myself. |
| 0:49.1 | But we had a wonderful extended family. |
| 0:53.1 | And how menopause is linked to a loss of grey matter. |
| 0:56.8 | It does seem that the menopause might make the female brain more vulnerable to the risk of Alzheimer's disease. |
| 1:03.8 | So, what can be done? |
| 1:08.8 | India and the European Union have reached a trade deal covering two billion people, |
| 1:14.1 | and they're keen to talk it up. Here's European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen |
| 1:18.5 | using the kind of language more often heard from Donald Trump. We did it. We delivered the |
| 1:25.2 | mother of all deals. We are creating a market of 2 billion people, |
| 1:30.9 | and this is the tale of two giants, |
| 1:33.6 | the world's second and fourth largest economies, |
| 1:37.3 | two giants who choose partnership in a true win-win fashion, |
| 1:42.7 | a strong message that cooperation is the best answer to global challenges. |
| 1:48.4 | And speaking through a translator, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, was equally bullish. |
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