NEW DELHI — India and the European Union on Monday, November 9, reviewed engagements towards the timely signing and implementation of the India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and agreed to continue work towards concluding the Investment Protection Agreement and the Agreement on Geographical Indications, a joint press release said after the seventh India-EU Strategic Partnership Review Meeting (SPRM) in New Delhi.

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The meeting was co-chaired by Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Sibi George and Matti Maasikas, Deputy Secretary General for Geoeconomics and Interinstitutional Issues of the European External Action Service, the MEA said.

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7thStrategic Partnership Review Meeting between India and the EU
27 Jan 2026the 16th India-EU Summit in New Delhi that adopted the Joint Comprehensive Strategic Agenda under review
2 billion+people covered by the market the concluded FTA is projected to create, around a quarter of the global economy
Brussels, next yearwhere the next Strategic Partnership Review Meeting will be held

Both sides welcomed what they called the very positive momentum in India-EU relations and reviewed implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Strategic Agenda adopted at the 16th India-EU Summit in New Delhi on January 27, 2026. Discussions covered trade and investment including the FTA, supply chains and economic security — including work in the Trade and Technology Council (TTC) and the Blue Valleys initiative — clean transition, critical technologies, research and connectivity, and talent mobility and people-to-people exchanges.

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The two sides underscored the importance of strengthening the connectivity partnership, including Global Gateway, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) and trilateral projects in clean energy, climate resilience, green mobility and digitalisation, the joint release said.

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India and the EU concluded negotiations on the trade agreement earlier this year. Last month, European Council President Antonio Costa said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Brussels in December to formally sign the India-EU free trade agreement.

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What this means for India

The FTA's signing and implementation timetable is the centrepiece: the pact is projected to create a market of more than two billion people. Alongside it, the investment-protection and geographical-indications agreements, supply-chain work and the IMEC corridor decide how much of that headline promise reaches exporters, researchers and travellers.

What happens next: the next Strategic Partnership Review Meeting will be held in Brussels at a mutually convenient date next year, the joint release said — with the expected December signing of the FTA in Brussels the immediate milestone to watch.