The European Union and India have reached a free trade agreement to deepen economic and strategic ties after nearly two decades of negotiations BRUSSELS -- The ambitious free trade agreement between the European Union and India underscores the EU's efforts to ink new global partnerships at a time when the Trump administration has rattled the region's capitals which have long relied on a stable relationship with Washington on trade, defense and diplomacy.

By Jan Strupczewski and Lili Bayer BRUSSELS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - EU leaders will rethink their ties with the U. S. at an emergency summit on Thursday after Donald Trump's threat of tariffs and even military action to acquire Greenland badly shook confidence in the transatlantic relationship, diplomats said.