EU-India relations: Council info and EU Publications

This report evaluates the EU-India Science and Technology (S&T) Agreement, set to be renewed for 2025–2030. Key areas of collaboration include energy, health, water, information and communication technology (ICT), and innovation.

The EU and India are currently negotiating a free trade agreement, an investment protection agreement and an agreement on geographical indications. This briefing evaluates the strategic partnership between the EU and India, trade, a wide range of other policy areas, as well as challenges to EU-India relations.

This Chaillot Paper explores how the EU and India might seize new opportunities while highlighting underlying differences in outlook across critical issue areas. In the various chapters both European and Indian experts analyse specific dimensions of EU-India cooperation and examine how to leverage common ground through concrete actions moving forward. This should allow policymakers on both sides to overcome the difficulties caused by mismatched expectations and identify potential areas of convergence.

Policy briefing from the Parliament on the EU-India free trade agreement under negotiation. Already following the EU-India 1994 Cooperation Agreement, the parties built a multi-tiered institutional architecture of cooperation, and eventually upgraded their relationship to a 'Strategic Partnership' in 2004. During the same period, trade between the two partners grew significantly, reaching €115.4 billion in 2022.

The importance of India’s assumption of the rotating presidency of the G20 was reflected in the one hundred monuments, including UNESCO World Heritage sites, that were lit up across the country for an entire week in December 2022 when the country took the helm. Placards bearing the portrait of Narendra Modi were displayed across New Delhi hailing the G20 as ‘a watershed moment’ where India could shoulder ‘big responsibility’ and make ‘bigger decisions’ at the ‘Global High Table’. New Delhi intends taking full advantage of the presidency to showcase its position as a multi-aligned emerging power and legitimate leader of the so-called Global South.

This analysis provides background on where EU-India economic relations stand and why it is important to maintain momentum following this breakthrough, despite a somewhat unpromising domestic political environment in India.

This Structural Migration Profile aims at providing a factual overview on migration and development in a given country. Data refer to the end of the year and come from various publicly available official sources. Data sources may use different collection methodologies.

This report is an independent evaluation of the European Union's humanitarian interventions in India and Nepal during the period 2013-2017, as managed by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). The evaluation draws upon evidence from project data, interviews, field visits and a literature review. The evaluation concludes that the programs succeeded in achieving most project output objectives, with mixed results at an outcome level due to various factors.

EU trade relations with India. Facts, figures and latest developments.

EU-India Free Trade Agreement, Investment Protection Agreement and Geographical Indications Agreement

EU-India factsheet.

During the College visit to India on 28 February 2025, President von der Leyen and Prime Minister Modi jointly announced that both sides would aim at concluding the FTA agreement by the end of 2025, which meant that the talks needed to be intensified. This is what happened during this round and several chapters could be successfully closed (Transparency, Good Regulatory Practices, Customs and Trade Facilitation and Intellectual Property Rights, as well as Mutual Administrative Assistance provisions). Furthermore, progress was also achieved in most other areas.

President von der Leyen and the College of Commissioners were in New Delhi on 27-28 February to deepen relations with the largest democracy in the world.

The European Union and India held their second ministerial meeting of the Trade and Technology Council (TTC) on 28 February 2025, in New Delhi, as part of one of the first visits by the College of Commissioners early in the new mandate.

The 2025 Commission work programme announced the adoption - in the second quarter of 2025 - of a new Strategic EU-India agenda, set to provide a comprehensive approach to pinpoint areas of common strategic interest. The agenda will follow the College's visit to New Delhi on 27 and 27 February 2025 - the first outside Europe of the ongoing Commission. The second meeting of the EU-India Trade and Technology Council (TTC) also took place.

A list of recommendations by the EU Parliament to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the legislative bodies and government of India.

The EU-India Trade and Technology Council is the EU's second such endeavour after the one with the United States, and its aims are broadly similar, i.e. to increase bilateral cooperation, to boost bilateral trade and investment (in the same context as the free trade agreement under negotiation between the two parties), and to capitalise on both parties' strengths to ensure their technological and industrial leadership while preserving their shared values.

On 20 November 2018, the European Commission and the Vice President/High Representative adopted the Joint Communication ‘Elements for an EU strategy on India’. The Joint communication builds on the 2004 Commission communication on India and reflects the European Parliament’s recommendations adopted on June 2017 (Preda report).

The EEAS is the European Union's diplomatic service. It helps the EU's foreign affairs chief – the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy – carry out the Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy.

The Delegation was established in 1983. Except for consular tasks, the Delegation of the European Union in New Delhi is functioning the same way as an Embassy does; it is a diplomatic mission representing the EU to India together with the 27 Member States of the European Union. It performs a variety of tasks aimed at enhancing relations between the EU and India.