Mission in New Delhi, India

A morning full of meetings today in New Delhi. Among them I had the pleasure of meeting Sanjeev Sanyal – Member of the Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister Narendra Modi – and Ram Madhav, President of India Foundation. An inspiring exchange on global challenges, the IMEC corridor and the Mattei Plan, strengthening strategic connectivity and cooperation between India, Europe, and Mediterranean.

The ECR Party Secretary General Antonio Giordano met Sudhanshu Trivedi, Member of Parliament and national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the conservative party led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The success of conservative governments in India and the growth of conservative movements in Europe represent significant milestones. It is important to further intensify contacts and relations between our political and institutional communities, with a view to building an increasingly structured.

ECR Party Secretary General Antonio Giordano met with Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Member of the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Indian Parliament, and member of several Parliamentary Committees, including the one for the Ministry of Finance, the Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law & Justice, and the Committee on Ethics. They discussed the new EU–India trade agreements and the important opportunity to develop, through a transnational interparliamentary group, the IMEC project in coordination with the Mattei Plan.