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Global Affairs and International Relations › Major powers

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Europe (European Union, United Kingdom, France, Germany)

India and Europe: the European Union and its major powers.

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India and France

Prelims

France is India's oldest strategic partner (1998), and in February 2026 the relationship was raised to a Special Global Strategic Partnership.

France supplies key defence platforms: Rafale fighters, 26 Rafale Marine jets for the Navy, and the Scorpene (Kalvari class) submarines built in India.
The Horizon 2047 roadmap, adopted in 2023, sets the direction of the partnership up to the centenary of Indian independence.
2026 is the India and France Year of Innovation, and civil nuclear cooperation now extends to small and advanced modular reactors.

What changed

14 Jun 2026Newnewly added
- At their first summit since the upgrade, in Nice, the two leaders adopted an Innovation Roadmap 2030 and set up a mechanism to double bilateral trade within five years.
- They launched an Economic Security Dialogue and a joint working group on artificial intelligence.
- They opened Bharat Innovates, a showcase of Indian deep technology startups, and ISRO signed a letter of intent on human spaceflight with France's space agency, the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES).
The Hindu, 14 Jun 2026: Modi, Macron inaugurate Innovation Conference in Nice (opens in a new tab) · The Tribune, 14 Jun 2026: PM Modi, French President Macron jointly inaugurate Bharat Innovates in Nice (opens in a new tab) · Embassy of India, Paris, 14 Jun 2026: India and France bilateral brief (opens in a new tab)

Also filed elsewhere

India's trade agreements · on Trade policy, tariffs and trade agreements
In 2019 India stayed out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, fearing a flood of imports.