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C. Raja Mohan
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 | http://carnegieeurope.eu/
Europe as a collective has long been a
missing link in India’s engagement with the world. Brussels too has
found it hard to raise its profile in New Delhi, despite the growth in
India’s economic and political salience in the twenty-first century. It
was not surprising, therefore, that the two sides have had considerable
difficulty in implementing a 2004 declaration on building a bilateral strategic partnership.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Europe on March 29 to inject a measure of pragmatism into the bilateral relationship and widen its scope and depth. As a leader with sharp political acumen, Modi also understands the current traumatic moment in Europe after the March 22 terror attacks in Brussels and the November 13, 2015, attacks in Paris. As Brussels copes with an unprecedented threat enveloping it, Modi will hope that Europe can better appreciate the terrorist challenge that India has continued to endure since the late 1980s.
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