India-EU free trade agreement (mother of all deals) what benefits will it provide to India

What does it mean when the world's fourth-largest economy locks arms with its largest single market? On 27 January 2026, India and the European Union wrapped up close to two decades of stop-and-start talks and announced a free trade agreement that stitches together a market of roughly two billion people, accounting for about a quarter of global GDP. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promptly called it the