India and European Union are drawing closer to navigate Trump, China pressures
The EU is already India's second-largest trading partner, accounting for goods trade worth €120 billion in 2024. PHOTO: REUTERS
- India and the European Union (EU) have been in a 'strategic partnership' since 2004, but never perhaps has this relationship attained the strategic importance that it has today.
The two sides find themselves increasingly aligned not just over shared economic and strategic interests, their common belief in multilateralism as well as people-to-people links, but also due to evolving geopolitical factors, stemming especially from US President Donald Trump's chaotic policy decisions and the need to decouple from China.
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