The Future of India-Europe Relations

The panel will discuss the next phase of India–EU relations, assessing the prospects of an FTA, security and defence cooperation, and deeper strategic convergence. It will situate the partnership within shifting global dynamics, highlighting opportunities from shared interests and constraints from geopolitical divergences, domestic politics, and external pressures.

January 28 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Together with the Dahrendorf Programme at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, we are hosting a panel discussion on the theme “The Future of India-Europe Relations”.

The panel will discuss the evolving India–EU partnership as it enters a new phase following the February 2025 visit of the College of Commissioners to New Delhi, examining how expanding institutional frameworks such as the proposed Free Trade Agreement, a potential Security and Defence Partnership, and the Trade and Technology Council are shaping ties. It will assess the realistic prospects and geopolitical significance of concluding the FTA by end-2025, the likely scope and limits of security cooperation, and why strong economic linkages have yet to translate into deeper strategic convergence. The discussion will situate India–Europe relations within the wider reconfiguration of the global order, considering shared interests in economic resilience and a rules-based system alongside constraints arising from differing approaches to Russia, China, domestic politics, and US unpredictability. It will also outline what a credible level of ambition toward 2030 might look like, moving beyond rhetoric to define tangible markers of success.

This is an invites only event.

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Experts

Amb. Hervé Delphin
Prof. C Raja Mohan
Dr. Dimitar Bechev
James Crabtree
Dr. Kira Huju

New Delhi

New Delhi, India + Google Map

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