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Published 11/06/2009 by Yahoo! India

India-EU trade talks suffer labour pain

Even as India and the European Union (EU) on Friday signed a pact on an ambitious nuclear energy project, the two sides continued to lock horns over a proposal of latter s proposal to include social issues like labour in a duty-free trade agreement that is being negotiated...

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Labour pangs likely to hold up India-EU free-tr...

NEW DELHI: The fate of the India-EU trade and investment agreement—which seeks to further open up bilateral markets for goods, investments and services—may hang ... - [11/06/2009 - Economictimes]

India, EU put FTA on fast track

CII President Venu Srinivasan for big thrust to trade pactMovement of EU unskilled labour to be discouragedNEW DELHI: Even as the 10th India-EU summit decided to ... - [11/06/2009 - The Hindu]

SKorea approves free trade deal

Seoul: South Korea's parliament on Friday ratified a free trade deal with India, opening the way to the elimination or lowering of tariffs on more than $15 billion ... - [11/06/2009 - Financial Express]

EU to press India over free trade deal - [11/05/2009 - FT.com - Brussels]

EU to press India over free trade deal - [11/05/2009 - FT.com - World, Asia Pacific]

South Korea approves free trade deal with India - [11/06/2009 - Reuters India]

South Korea OK's India Free Trade Agreement - [11/06/2009 - ABC News]

EU tramples on India's poor | David Cronin - [11/06/2009 - Comment is free | guardian.co.uk]

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