The new Delhi, July 17 (PTI), the European Union-India relationship is on the “upward trend” and both parties represent a “safe investment” for each other at a time when trade, technology, migration and information “armed”, EU ambassador in India, Hervé Delphin said on Thursday.
At the interactive session, he also described the “historical visit” of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the EU College of Commissioners to India in February as “Voting of trust and confidence in this relationship with India”.
“The EU, India’s relationship is clearly up to the ascending trend,” he said, adding that the 27-meter block is “unique construct”, even for Europeans, to navigate this reality, which is “sui generis”.
People understand that the EU stands as a “collective power” in today’s world, the envoy of the Think-Tank Ananta Center said.
Delphin mentioned that it is “interesting to see how global forces such as Russia, China and the USA focus on the EU, not necessarily in a positive way”.
“But that probably means that it matters. So they can mock us, they can challenge us, they can undermine us, but that means it matters, otherwise they won’t have pain and time to concentrate on us … We are a collective power with the Member States,” he said.
On the ties to EU-India, Delphin said that both were “cooperative partners” who have committed to the rules based on rules and order-based approaches. Both committed to finding a solution to global challenges and global ordinary, from AI to biodiversity, he added.
This partnership, which “grew organically, has more than 50 areas of dialogue and cooperation,” said, said the envoy.
“When you see how investments, trade, technology, migration, energy and information are disrupted, we represent safe investments for ourselves. I think it has grown in minds, this penetration of our economic, political and security interests has simply grown.”
Delphin said it is about how the partnership in India in the EU can “bring mutual benefits, not only for two of us, bilateral (way), but also about what it can bring to the world, especially during this turbulence”.
He also stressed that in this context with geopolitical and geo -economic dynamics “for us, the environment has never been so favorable to us” for “strong strategic partnership”.
“As a partner of selection and as a partner for necessity. Both of this relationship benefit. There’s really unused potential and perhaps the time to deliver.”
Referring to the Asean Regional Forum, which took place last week, said it was about support and connectivity and how to “speed up the digital transition and the green transition”.
“It was quite obvious that the country we have just signed FTA, negotiating FTA and the completion of FTA. And (there are) those who want to open and restore FTA … We just closed it with Singapore and Vietnam … We have a political agreement on a comprehensive economic partnership with Indonesia.”
“I would say that there is the EU upstairs on the stock market.
He also mentioned Brexit and said, “We had to spend or drive divorce with Great Britain. It was a negative sum. Nobody in Europe … was not for the United Kingdom to be outside the EU.
“And of course Trump 1, followed by Trump 2, certainly brings a number of challenges in a relationship.
Delphin noted that the EU often tends to be “written off”, but claimed it was a collective force.
“So what you see, how it happens is what I call the” rearm “of the EU. Military rearmament … Social rearmament, preventing our democracy, increasing the resistance of our societies and of course economic rearmament. We realized our own way. ”
“We are preparing for a new normal … that we have fundamentally changed our DNA … We remain an open society, a democratic society. But the difference is that we do not want our openness to become vulnerability and turn against us.
When visiting the President of the European Commission in India, he said it was a “strong political message” and the feeling that “we have to invest more”.
During the key meetings there was “persistent doubt about breaking” and there was an element of trust and it was strengthened that “we are ready to trust each other,” Evoy said.
Delphin referred to the main address of von der Leyens during the visit and said, “She said it was a” subsequent partnership “not only for the EU and India, but also for the rest of the world.”
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