European Union remains committed to its partnership with India despite the exit of Britain, EU Ambassador to India Tomasz Kozlowski recently. Kozlowski believes India is an important factor in the international arena. While India is the EU’s 10th trading partner, India’s is their largest trading partner. Last year, trade between India and the EU stood at 100 billion euros.

According to Kozlowski, the India-EU summit during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Brussels in March this year invigorated the partnership. The summit adopted a number of agreements that are very result-oriented, he said. We have analysed all Indian flagship programmes. He said that the EU has made some suggestions regarding the flagship programmes of India but stressed that these were not in the form of assistance but as a partnership.

While the EU-India clean energy and climate partnership has been launched, the EU-India startup partnership would be launched in October this year, the Ambassador, who hails from Poland, said. He said that the European Investment Bank (EIB) has launched a credit line of 1.2 billion euros for Indian partners.