India is currently the fastest growing economy in the world and a strategic partner for the EU, representing a sizable and dynamic market of 1.25 billion people. For these reasons, the EU and India are committed to further increase their bilateral trade and investment through the Free Trade Agreement negotiations that were launched in 2007.
After substantial progress was made through a number of negotiation rounds, discussions are currently focused on key outstanding issues that include improved market access for some goods and services, government procurement, geographical indications, sound investment protection rules, and sustainable development.
Trade picture<span>The EU is India's number one trading partner (13% of India's overall trade with the world in 2014-15), well ahead of China (9.5%), USA (8.5%), UAE (7.8%) and Saudi Arabia (5.2%).<span>India is the EU's 9th trading partner in 2015 (2.2% of EU's overall trade with the world), after South Korea (2.6%) and ahead of Brazil (1.9%). </span><span>The value of EU exports to India grew from €21.3 billion in 2005 to €38.1 billion in 2015, with engineering goods, gems and jewelry, other manufactured goods and chemicals ranking at the top. </span>The value of EU imports from India also increased from €19.1 billion in 2005 to €39.4 billion in 2015, with at the top textiles and clothing, chemicals and engineering goods.Trade in services almost tripled in the past decade, increasing from €5.2billion in 2002 to €14 billion in 2015.<span>EU investment stocks in India amounted to €38.5 billion in 2014, increasing from €34.7 billion in the previous year.</span></span>
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The Quakers rejected slavery on the grounds that it contradicted the Christian concept of brotherhood.
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The Quakers are a religious movement that originated among Christian English dissenters in the mid-17th century. At the end of the 1600s, many Quaker immigrants emigrated to North America, where William Penn founded Pennsylvania.
Quakers imagine that there is something of God within every human being, which, like an inner light, can guide one. The movement emphasizes that each person must find his or her own way to God, that God exists within every human being, and that the personal experience of God is the only guidance a human can have. Therefore, as God lived in every human, even in African-Americans, men were all equal and as a consequence brothers under God. This religious view, therefore, made them reject slavery during the 19th Century.
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Though the Gulf War was recognized as a decisive victory for the coalition, Kuwait and Iraq suffered enormous damage, and Saddam Hussein was not forced from power.
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