EU delegation’s visit ‘unprecedented’, will enhance connectivity, trade and tech linkages: PM Modi. The President of the European Commission, accompanied by the European Union College of Commissioners, had arrived in New Delhi on Thursday afternoon on a two-day India visit, at the invitation of Prime Minister Modi. This is the first-ever visit of the EU College of commissioners together to India and the first visit outside of Europe by the new College ofCommissioners that took office in December 2024. The two sides enter the third decade of their strategic partnership as the two sides mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the India-European Union trade and investment treaty in 1998. The EU chief said that the delegation’s visit symbolises how much the EU values its partnership with India. The delegation will intensify engagement and diversify India-EU engagement, particularly in trade and investments in semiconductors, AI, 6G, Green Hydrogen and a beneficial trade regime, said the Ministry of External Affairs (AAM) S. Jaishankar. The meeting took place at the Hyderabad House, New Delhi, on the sidelines of the 2-day EU-India Trade and Trade Council (TTC) meeting that took stock of the significant progress in digital partnership, green energy initiatives, clean and clean technology, and resilient supply chains.
