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Europe and India tin physique a concern that is “predictable”, Kaja Kallas, the overseas argumentation main of the European Union, said connected Tuesday (January 27, 2026), taking purpose astatine the U.S., Russia, and China for expanding uncertainty successful the world.
Ms. Kallas said that during the EU-India Summit connected Tuesday (January 27, 2026) betwixt Prime Minister Narendra Modi, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and European Council President Antonio Costa, the EU had asked India to “put pressure” connected Moscow to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine.
India-EU Summit updates connected January 27, 2026
Speaking astatine a think-tank lawsuit here, soon aft the India-EU escaped commercialized agreement (FTA) and Strategic and Defence Partnership (SDP) were announced, Ms. Kallas said the U.S.’s “tariff threats”, China’s “economic coercion”, and the “existential threat” to Europe from Russia were each communal challenges.
Ms. Kallas, who was Estonia’s Prime Minister (2021-2024), is known for her outspoken views, particularly aft Russia’s penetration of Ukraine successful 2022. In September 2025, Ms. Kallas had said that India’s information successful the Zapad subject exercises and its imports of Russian lipid “stand successful the mode of person ties” betwixt New Delhi and Brussels.
Accusing Russia of refusing to hold to a ceasefire with Ukraine and of bombing civilian targets, Ms. Kallas said that Moscow wanted to “push Ukrainian radical to surrender”.
“What we person asked our Indian colleagues is to enactment unit connected the Russians truthful that they would besides privation peace, due to the fact that this warfare is not bully for Europe oregon for the [Global South] and that is an country of convergence for EU and India is that we some privation sustainable peace”.
On Sunday, the Kremlin spokesperson had said that ceasefire talks successful Abu Dhabi betwixt Russia and Ukraine were nether way, but that European leaders, peculiarly Ms. Kallas, would not beryllium included successful the talks.
Calling for India and the EU to cooperate connected the Indo-Pacific, the EU apical diplomat criticised China’s “weaponisation of trade” and highlighted the request for unfastened oversea lanes.
“[EU and India] some look economical coercive practices coming from China and to code this alone, we are some weak. But unneurotic we are overmuch stronger [and can] basal up to this,” Ms. Kallas said, adding that if companies were “hit” by Chinese practices, prosperity would besides suffer, and the EU-India FTA would assistance the 2 countries cooperate against this, and enactment up the multilateral satellite order.
“When I spell astir the world, I spot much and much countries privation to physique partnerships with Europe, due to the fact that we are predictable, and that has go thing of value,” Ms. Kallas, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Vice-President, said speaking astatine the Delhi-based Ananta Centre.
Referring to President Donald Trump’s imposition of caller duties, without naming the U.S., she said that the “constant menace of tariffs” and the reversal of signed agreements “by an enforcement order” had created unit connected companies astir the world.
She stressed that India and the EU indispensable “build confidence” and enactment connected trade, security, defence and overseas argumentation together. “[EU members] instrumentality a agelong clip to negociate an agreement, but erstwhile we do, we instrumentality to them and really instrumentality them,” she said.
Ms. Kallas said it was clip for India and the EU to cooperate connected defence hardware arsenic well.
“There is an involvement successful our EU subordinate states for practice with the Indian defence industry, due to the fact that we person these existential threats coming from Russia,” she said. “We person our subordinate states expanding their defence expenditure... if European industries cannot deliver, we tin bargain from outside,” she said, adding that India and the EU could enactment together, not lone connected defence hardware, but maritime exercises, cybersecurity, and hybrid threats.
