Old values, new avenues: On India-Poland ties
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met to discuss strengthening bilateral trade, defense cooperation, and technology partnerships. The leaders aim to double trade volume by 2030 and explore trilateral manufacturing collaborations while addressing geopolitical concerns regarding the war in Ukraine.
Why it matters
This meeting signals a strategic pivot in India-EU relations, leveraging Poland's growing economy to diversify India's defense and tech supply chains.
Old values, new avenues: On India-Poland ties India and Poland have no conflict, but are pulled apart by other nations Sixteen years after his visit as Poland’s Prime Minister, Donald Tusk’s travel to Delhi and Bengaluru last week was to signal a renewed desire to work closely with India. Mr. Tusk’s visit, two months ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Brussels to sign the India-European Union (EU) Free Trade Agreement, indicated one part of his agenda. Both sides agreed that it was time to develop trade, currently worth just $6 billion, to double its size by 2030. Mr. Tusk’s last visit to India was in 2017, as President of the European Council for the EU-India summit, and it is fitting that his trip was just as the FTA is finalised and ratified after years of delays.
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