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New EU Ambassador to India Highlights Trade and Partnership

New EU Ambassador to India Highlights Trade and Partnership
Jean-Eric Paquet Takes Charge As EU Ambassador To India, Highlights Trade & Strategic Partnership · freepressjournal.in

Jean-Eric Paquet is the European Union’s new ambassador to India.

He officially began the job after meeting President Droupadi Murmu.

He said India and Europe are entering an important period of closer cooperation.

They want to work together on trade, technology, defence and security.

Paquet hopes people in India will use new opportunities from a free trade agreement.

He also wants mobility programs to become better known.

He plans to travel across India during his three-year term.

The European Union is already one of India’s biggest trading partners.

Key facts

Ambassador
Jean-Eric Paquet
Host country
India
Credentials presented to
President Droupadi Murmu
Term mentioned
Three years
Trade agreement
EU-India free trade agreement negotiations concluded on January 27
EU-India goods trade
€118 billion in 2025
EU trade ranking
The EU is India’s third-largest trading partner

Quotes

Jean-Eric Paquet

European Union ambassador to India

“I am so honoured to have been able to present these credentials this morning. I think I come at an extraordinary moment in that relationship. India and Europe have decided to engage with one another, politically, economically, technologically, to really make a difference for ourselves, and I think also in a multilateral set-up. I think this will make a big difference.”
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“For my tenure, I hope to really support everyone here in India to really use the opportunities which will be created by that relationship, of course, particularly by the free trade agreement, but there are many other platforms which exist, like the European Legal Gateway, for example, for mobility, which I hope can be better known, understood, and used here in India.”
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