21 Mar 2024
EFTA investments in India - how to realise them? Prof Elsig interviewed by SRF
On 19 March, Prof Manfred Elsig, WTI’s Deputy Managing Director, was interviewed by the Swiss-German Radio station SRF’s "Echo der Zeit” broadcasting on the recently concluded "EFTA-India Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement". Listen here (in German).
Summary (translation from German)
In the recently concluded free trade agreement with India, Switzerland and the other EFTA states have pledged that their companies will invest 100 billion dollars in India over the next 15 years and create around one million jobs. But how is this supposed to work?
Listen here full broadcast (05:32 min)
Original (in German)
Im kürzlich beschlossenen Freihandelsabkommen mit Indien haben die Schweiz und die anderen Efta-Staaten zugesagt, dass ihre Unternehmen in den nächsten 15 Jahren 100 Milliarden Dollar in Indien investieren und rund eine Million Arbeitsplätze schaffen. Doch wie soll das gehen?
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