NEW DELHI : On a day India and the UK clinched a free trade pact, Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman said New Delhi could achieve a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union by December this year as there were just “one or two items” on which each side was fixated. FM, however, called for some flexibility to achieve the FTA.

“Negotiation is about the art of making it possible. You need to have everything done to make it possible to achieve. But when there are fixed positions, someone will have to relax . . .