India-EU virtual agreement leads to civil nuclear agreement

India and the European Union ( EU )will on Wednesday evening hold a bilateral virtual summit. The summit primarily aims to further broadbase the ties between the world’s biggest democracy and the 27-nation regional bloc. The main focus of the summit will be on areas including trade, investment and defence.

At the summit, where India will be represented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the European side by President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, the two sides will also unveil a five-year roadmap to strengthen ties.

To forward the matter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tweeted:

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The European Union is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. Its members have a combined area of 4,233,255.3 km² and an estimated total population of about 447 million.

The EU and European citizenship were established when the Maastricht Treaty came into force in 1993.[19] The EU traces its origins to the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the European Economic Community (EEC), established, respectively, by the 1951 Treaty of Paris and 1957 Treaty of Rome. The original members of what came to be known as the European Communities were the Inner Six: Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany. The Communities and their successors have grown in size by the accession of new member states and in power by the addition of policy areas to their remit. The latest major amendment to the constitutional basis of the EU, the Treaty of Lisbon, came into force in 2009.

On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom became the first member state to leave the EU.[20] Following a 2016 referendum, the UK signified its intention to leave and negotiated a withdrawal agreement. The UK is in a transitional phase until at least 31 December 2020, during which it remains subject to EU law and part of the EU single market and customs union. Before this, three territories of member states had left the EU or its forerunners, these being French Algeria (in 1962, upon independence), Greenland (in 1985, following a referendum) and Saint Barthélemy (in 2012).

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