Thank you to CII for the invitation to this eminent panel on FTA's. I am clearly the outlier here, not being quite as a trade expert as my fellow panelists.  But I am definitely a trade supporter and an FTA advocate – as Rajesh would know. Three main messages I would like to share with you today from an EU governmental perspective: The Brutalisation of Trade resulting from wars, trade wars and weaponisation of interdependence which impact both India and the EU, is a new reality of geo-economics