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On 27 January 2026, the European Union and India signed a Security and Defence Partnership on the sidelines of the EU-India Summit. This agreement marks an important step in the evolution of the strategic partnership between the two sides, placing security and defence at the heart of a relationship that has until now been driven primarily by trade and economic cooperation.
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12:30 – 14:00 | Buffet lunch
14:00 | Opening remarks
14:15 | First Roundtable: Defense Planning and Security Environment
- Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA)
- Élie Tenenbaum, Director of the Center for Security Studies, French Institute of International Relations (Ifri)
Moderator : John Seaman, Research Fellow, Ifri’s Center for Asian Studies
15:30 | Coffee break
15:45 | Second Roundtable: The Future of EU–India Defense Industrial Cooperation
- Nitin Pai, Co-founder and Director, The Takshashila Institution (Bangaluru)
- Léo Péria-Peigné, Research Fellow at Ifri’s Center for Security Studies, Head of the Defense Research Laboratory (LRD)
Moderator: Isabelle Saint-Mézard, Associate Research Fellow at Ifri’s Center for Asian Studies and Professor at Paris 8 University
17:00 | Concluding remarks
Chair : Sylvia Malinbaum, Head of Research on India and South Asia, Ifri’s Center for Asian Studies
The seminar will be held in English, under the Chatham House Rule, and is by invitation only.
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Sylvia MALINBAUM
Research Fellow, Head of India and South Asia Research, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
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