The EU and India are constantly working to deepen and broaden political ties.

Their longstanding relationship goes back to the early 1960s. The Joint Political Statement of 1993 and the 1994 Co-operation Agreement opened a broad political dialogue between both sides.

This dialogue has evolved through annual Summits, regular ministerial and senior-official meetings as well as expert gatherings.

In 2004 India became one of the EU’s strategic partners. For the period 2020-2025, our work is guided by the EU-India Strategic Partnership Roadmap, which plans to address:

1. Foreign Policy and Security Cooperation (including Human Rights)
2. Trade and investment, Business & Economy
3. Sustainable Modernisation Partnership (including Climate change & clean energy, Environment, Urban Development, Information and communications technology, Transports, Space, Health and Food Security, Research & Innovation).
4. Global governance & Multilateralism
5. Public Diplomacy, i.e. “People-to-people”: migration, social policies, Education & Culture, Parliaments, Civil Society and Local/Decentralised Authorities.

In addition, Joint Declarations were adopted by EU and India to intensify work on areas such as Connectivity, Water and Resource Efficiency through Circular Economy. In 2023, EU and India also launched a Trade and Technology council meant to lead on digital transformation and green technologies, with a specific focus on: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_23_596

• Strategic technologies/digital
• Green & clean energy technologies
• Trade, investment and resilient value chains.

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 European Union (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. The European Investment Bank (aka the Climate Bank) is hosted in the same premises. Come and discover them on this website.