Press Release: EU-India Troika to set an ambitious agenda for the next EU-India Summit

On 29 June 2009, Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, will participate in the EU-India Foreign Ministers’ Troika in Prague. The meeting with the recently appointed Indian Foreign Minister, S.M. Krishna, is expected to put emphasis on a range of global issues, particularly on common strategies and responses to the economic and financial crisis. Furthermore the high level meeting will discuss cooperation in the field of energy and climate change and how both partners can reinforce their ambition to achieve concrete progress at the December Copenhagen conference. Other topics will include the fight against terrorism and recent foreign policy developments in the region.