The India-EU relations are a comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Republic of India and the European Union, a political and economic bloc of member states. Formal relations began in the early 1960s when India established diplomatic ties with the European Economic Community (EEC). The relationship was initially driven by trade and economics, but the Joint Political Statement of 1993 and the 1994 Co-operation Agreement broadened it beyond purely commercial ties. The relationship was formally upgraded to a Strategic Partnership at the Fifth India-EU Summit in The Hague on November 8, 2004, to reflect the growing and broad nature of their interaction.
The mechanism of the partnership is guided by a multi-tiered institutional architecture, including annual India-EU Summits since 2000. The partnership's operation was initially detailed in the Joint Action Plan (JAP) adopted in 2005 and updated in 2008, which covered areas like political dialogue, economic cooperation, and people-to-people exchanges. The most significant recent change is the adoption of the "India-EU Strategic Partnership: A Roadmap to 2025" at the 15th Summit in July 2020, which introduced six wider sections for collaboration, including Foreign Policy & Security Co-operation and Institutional Architecture. This roadmap, along with the Trade and Technology Council (TTC) established in 2022, connects the partnership to concepts like the EU's Global Gateway and India's Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IOPI), focusing on digital governance, green technologies, and resilient value chains. Key areas of cooperation include trade, security, climate change, and connectivity, with the EU being India's third-largest trading partner.