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EGMONT POLICY BRIEF 340 - India and the EU in 2024: where to next? - Jan Luykx

5 Apr 2024

In the Chinese influence in the region and to Chinese military next paragraph the Foreign Minister states: ‘The attention pressure in the Himalayan region, India has entered into that the Modi government has devoted to building ties strategic partnerships such as the one with the US, Japan with Europe is a significant departure from the passivity and Australia (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or. [...] The The question is therefore whether the EU is individual EU member States attach a lot of importance institutionally capable of having a real strategic to their bilateral relationship with New Delhi and are relationship with India that relates to the geopolitical interacting with the Indian government at the highest situation of the moment? Defence and Security remain level. [...] 3 EGMONT POLICY BRIEF 340 | INDIA AND THE EU IN 2024: WHERE TO NEXT? What impact the Ukraine-war will have on the outcome For the EU, the geopolitical need to strengthen its relations of the next European elections and the policy-choices of with India should be obvious. [...] The Ukraine- War and the challenge posed by the China-Russia combine, However, notwithstanding the divergences that exist as well as the uncertainty about the outcome of the next between the EU-member states about how to deal US elections, should encourage the Union to go for a with the Ukraine war, it is clear that the EU has taken stronger defence and security role in general and for a conscious. [...] The the present general lack of political focus and intensity in appointment of a European Commissioner responsible for the relationship, in the first place by establishing more defence, such as proposed by Mrs Von der Leyen (at the continuity in the relationship with India at the highest 2024 Munich security conference), would be a concrete level.

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