Coverage
We monitor the EU–India relationship across distinct policy domains. Each area demands its own rigor, its own sources, its own way of seeing what matters.
Both economies are central to global climate action. We monitor renewable energy partnerships, emissions commitments, and the fault lines emerging around instruments like CBAM, where Europe's green ambitions meet India's industrial realities.
From the "mother of all deals" to CBAM friction, trade between the EU and India is where geopolitics meets tariff lines. We track the FTA's implementation, market access battles, supply chain realignments, and the regulatory standards that will shape bilateral commerce for decades.
Digital sovereignty, AI regulation, and data flows define modern statecraft. We examine how the EU and India navigate competing visions of the digital future, from platform rules and data protection to the race to set global standards.
The EU–India security relationship is no longer peripheral, it's a pillar. We follow the Security and Defence Partnership, maritime posture in the Indo-Pacific, cyber cooperation, counter-terrorism coordination, and the emerging architecture of European-Indian defence industrial ties.
From semiconductors to clean technology, the EU and India are negotiating the shape of a new industrial order. We track critical supply chains, standards battles, the Trade and Technology Council agenda, and the strategic bets both sides are placing on the industries that will define the next decade.
Research
Rigorous research from our team of analysts.
The EU–India Watch
A behind-the-scenes look at how strategic relationships shape high-stakes agreements beyond the headline terms.
The EU–India Watch
Why trade is shifting from one-size-fits-all rules toward clubs, corridors, and layered economic governance.
The EU–India Watch
Critical inputs are becoming strategic leverage—redrawing alliances, industrial policy, and the geopolitics of supply.
The EU–India Watch
Key takeaways from a Berlin policy conversation on AI governance, adoption, and shared EU–India priorities.
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Press Roundup
What journalists across Europe and India are writing about the EU India relations — curated and summarised.
New Delhi's negotiators enter this round with a clear mandate: professionals must be able to move freely. India's comparative advantage in IT services, legal expertise and healthcare cannot be bargained away for goods market access. The EU's push to tie mobility concessions to data localisation clauses is seen in South Block as a non-starter. Sources suggest India is prepared to walk away from any deadline-driven framework if core service sector interests remain off the table.
| Country | India |
| Language | English |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Orientation | Centre-left / Liberal |
| Founded | 1878 |
| Model | Partially fee-based |
Brussels is floating a novel framework bundling the long-stalled FTA with infrastructure financing under the Global Gateway initiative — offering India preferential funding for port modernisation and green energy projects in exchange for accelerated tariff concessions. Senior EU trade officials believe the package approach could break the decade-long deadlock, though New Delhi warns that linking aid to trade terms risks replicating conditions India rejected in earlier WTO rounds.
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Orientation | Liberal / Pro-market |
| Circulation | 500,000+ |
| Model | All content fee-based |
Scale
Goods trade alone reached around €120 billion in 2024. The partnership is supported by dozens of sectoral dialogues and working groups spanning trade, tech, security, and climate. India’s 2030 non-fossil capacity target signals the scale of the energy transition shaping shared priorities.
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