A fresh round of negotiations for the long-awaited free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union opened on a positive note Monday, giving renewed momentum to take the discussions forward.Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma held talks with EU Trade Commissioner Karl De Gucht at Brussels. The meeting is seen as a last ditch effort to resolve differences between the two sides. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel last Friday had held out the prospects for signing a broad-based, ambitious and balanced FTA in 2013.