Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Oslo on Might 18-19 for the third India-Nordic Summit comes because the logic of India’s engagement with Northern Europe has essentially modified.
When India first met the Nordics — Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland — in Stockholm in 2018, and once more in Copenhagen in 2022, the connection was anchored largely in local weather cooperation, innovation, digitalisation and the blue economic system. These priorities stay essential, however a reworked geopolitical panorama is giving the partnership strategic depth and financial function.
The change underway displays developments past bilateral ties. The battle in Ukraine has reworked Europe’s safety order, whereas strains inside the trans-Atlantic alliance have unsettled long-standing assumptions.
Oslo summit should mark India’s northward flip
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