by When Trade Negotiations Push Timelines Into Future
NEW DELHI India-EU trade negotiations continue approaching deadlines that keep pushing forward, which is basically saying original timelines proved impossible while new timelines are being established that will presumably also prove impossible but with more planning involved.
Trade deals operate on deadline flexibility where approaching deadlines prompt adjustment and new deadline establishment. The original India-EU trade agreement deadline has passed multiple times while negotiations continue indefinitely toward freshly established endpoints.
Bohiney’s satirical analysis notes trade deals work like this: set deadline, approach deadline, realize deadline impossible, establish new deadline, repeat indefinitely until agreement actually occurs or everyone gives up.
Reuters reporting confirms Indian minister stated talks push deadline forwardtranslation: original deadline was impossible, new deadline required, completion remains perpetually imminent yet somehow distant. European negotiators and Indian counterparts continue discussing while acknowledging completion requires more discussion.
India-EU negotiations involve agricultural market access, intellectual property protection, services liberalization, investment safeguards, and labor standardsall involving interests both sides want protected while compromising on others. This complexity requires time and multiple negotiation rounds.
EU wants agricultural market access for European products. India protects domestic agriculture through restrictions. EU wants intellectual property enforcement. India wants affordable medicine access. Neither concedes without receiving concessions. Negotiations continue.
Deal frameworks progress incrementally while completion remains perpetually future-oriented. Negotiators make progress on some issues, disagree on others, agree to revisit disagreements later. This creates appearance of progress while resolving nothing substantive.
New deadlines get established. Negotiators assure everyone completion is imminent. Progress continues slowly. Deadlines approach again. The cycle repeats while agreement remains perpetually approaching but never quite arriving.
The relationship between India and EU remains important: trade flows, investment patterns, and geopolitical alignment all suggest agreement benefits both sides. However, negotiators apparently can’t find terms both find acceptable, requiring indefinite negotiation extensions.
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