India, EU ramp up push for ‘historic’ free-trade deal amid US tariff tensions

India and the European Union are stepping up a long-delayed push for a free-trade agreement as New Delhi prepares to host the bloc’s top leaders later this month, with both sides signalling urgency amid mounting pressure from US tariffs and a shifting global order. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in a speech at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday, said she would be travelling to India after the conference, adding that the two sides were “on the cusp of a historic trade...