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India and France adopted an ‘Innovation Roadmap 2030’ and established a Dialogue connected Economic Security during bilateral talks betwixt Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron held successful Nice connected Sunday (June 14, 2026) day during Mr. Modi’s sojourn to the Bharat Innovates exertion conference.
A property merchandise from the authorities outlined a fig of themes – including calling for the accelerated adoption of the India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Earlier this year, the 2 countries had renamed their concern a ‘Special Global Strategic Partnership’ to bespeak an enhanced level of cooperation. No accepted ‘joint statement’ had emerged from the gathering arsenic of this writing.
“Recognising the cardinal relation of innovation and exertion successful the bilateral relationship, some sides adopted an ‘Innovation Roadmap 2030’ to springiness the concern a semipermanent direction,” the property merchandise said, with the 2 leaders agreeing to make a Joint India-France AI Working Group to grow practice successful AI. They besides noted the signing of 19 agreements betwixt entities successful the innovation ecosystems of the 2 countries.
Calling for the aboriginal implementation of the India-EU FTA, which was signed successful February this year, the 2 sides agreed to acceptable up a High-Level Mechanism to treble commercialized successful 5 years. The treatment besides focused connected practice successful the SME, rail, and aviation sectors.
Mr. Modi and Mr. Macron agreed to fortify proviso concatenation resilience, peculiarly successful captious minerals, arsenic portion of the ‘Dialogue connected Economic Security’, as per the property release.
On the large crises successful the satellite – successful West Asia, including Iran and Gaza, arsenic good arsenic connected Ukraine – the property merchandise remained circumspect comparative to the February 17, 2026 associated connection from the 2 countries, saying lone that leaders exchanged views “on matters of planetary importance, including the concern successful West Asia and Ukraine”.
The Prime Minister thanked Mr. Macron for the speedy implementation of visa-free transit for Indians successful French airports and invited French universities to unfastened campuses successful India nether the New Education Policy, arsenic per the authorities statement.
The 2 leaders discussed backstage assemblage collaboration successful the abstraction assemblage and the SHANTI Act’s ( authorities governing the atomic sector) implications successful India.
“I deliberation the tract is unfastened for French atomic companies successful this lawsuit to commencement looking astatine nonstop information successful the Indian atomic sector, oregon bash truthful with successful information with Indian backstage assemblage companies, whether successful accepted atomic powerfulness reactors oregon successful the much precocious tiny modular reactors,” Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said astatine a property briefing successful Nice.
Mr. Misri besides confirmed that discussions betwixt French powerfulness elephantine EDF and the Nuclear Power Cooperation of India Limited for the Jaitapur atomic powerfulness works – with six reactor units – were inactive on-going. The task has been nether treatment for much than 15 years.
Following the bilateral discussions, Mr. Modi departed France for Vienna from wherever helium travelled to Bratislava, Slovakia, for the 2nd limb of his Europe visit.
