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“EU – India relations have a long way to go before they can purposely be termed strategic.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 10 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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India and the EU declared a Strategic Partnership at The Hague summit of 2004, resting openly on future potential. A partnership is strategic when the partners converge on security and the shape of world order, not merely on trade. Judged that way, the statement was accurate in 2014; by 2026 it is only partly so.

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  • Why the label rang hollow in 2014
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