The European Union is India's third largest trading partner.
The European Union plans to resume trade talks with India, to try to give the country an alternative to diversification from Russia , writes Bloomberg.
According to a senior official familiar with EU plans, in addition to trade, the bloc is also preparing to hold a technology council with India, which may include discussions on general data protection rules, social networks and wider digitization efforts.
It is also reported that the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen plans to meet with the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on April 25.
The European Union is India's third largest trading partner.
Bloomberg, the EU and the US are trying to establish closer ties with India, which is the world's largest buyer of Russian weapons. India says it is using the weapons to deter aggression from its neighbors, Pakistan and China.
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India takes a restrained stance on Russian aggression in Ukraine, while calling for peace and indulging Russia. And this infuriates Ukrainians, who would like the Indian government to be more active in ending hostilities.
Read about the peculiarities of Delhi's position in Natalia Butyrskaya's article “India is being tested by the Russian-Ukrainian war.”
See special topic: Helping refugees from Ukraine can be not only a burden but also a benefit for European countries – IMF The flow of refugees from Ukraine to the EU is more than 5 million people and has already exceeded the number of Syrian refugees in 2015-2016, according to the Regional Economic Report IMF. In Mariupol, a shelling attacker attacked the city in 2015 from Russian shells In 2019, he was released early from prison under the “Savchenko Law”. The Russian army has already lost almost 22,000 personnel in Ukraine Approximately in a day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine killed 200 racists. As a result of night strikes in Dnipropetrovsk region, one person died – the head of the OVA Ten infrastructure facilities were destroyed. The low fighting spirit of the Russians will affect their effectiveness – British intelligence Strong resistance of the Armed Forces caused losses to the enemy.
