Different facets of a strategic partnership: How the EU is viewed by political and business elites, civil society and the press in India

European Foreign Affairs Review

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 349-362

  Fioramonti, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

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EID: 37049031364     PISSN: 13846299     EISSN: 18758223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.54648/eerr2007030     Document Type: Article

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1. India E-News, For India-Pakistan Peace, Terrorism Has to Go: EU, 13 August 2006, at , accessed 5 March 2007.
2. EU-India trade and investment figures as reported on the EU Commission's website at , accessed 5 March 2007.
3. Various references to 'common values' can be found on the website of the EU delegation in Delhi at
4. as well as the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at . Both websites were accessed on 5 March 2007.
5. This speech was given during a workshop aimed at intensifying the interactions between Indian and EU think tanks that took place in Brussels in 2001. It is freely available on the EU website at , accessed 5 March 2007.
6. Hindustan Times, 9 October 2006, p. 12.
7. Hindustan Times, 9 October 2006, p. 4.
8. K. Lisbonne de Vergeron, Contemporary Indian Views of the European Union (Chatam House, London, 2006), p. 4.
9. European Commission, Proceedings of the EU-India Think Tank Seminar, 15-16 October 2001.
10. M. Subhan, 'Is India Neglecting the European Union?', Indian Express, 28 May 2005, p. 32.
11. P.M. Kamath, 'India Not Interested in a "US" Europe', Asian Times, 26 June 2002. Full text available at , accessed 5 March 2007.
12. The reports of the PEW Global Attitudes survey can be found under , accessed 5 March 2007.
13. The Hindu, 8 November 2004, p. 7. Full text available at , accessed 5 March 2007.
14. The Hindu, 5 November 2006, p. 17. Full text available at , accessed 5 March 2007.
15. This speech is available from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs at , accessed 5 March 2007.
16. These speeches are available under , accessed 5 March 2007.
17. R.K. Jain, 'India, the European Union and Asian Regionalism', paper presented at the EUSA-AP conference on Multilateralism and Regionalism in Europe and Asia-Pacific, Tokyo, 8-10 December 2005, p. 7.
18. D. Sharma, 'Mad and Cow - A New Equality of Species', India Together, August 2003, available at , accessed 5 March 2007.
19. For an overview of how this issue is discussed by international NGOs, see C. Godfrey, Stop the Dumping! How EU Agricultural Subsidies are Damaging Livelihoods in the Developing World (Oxfam International, Washington, 2002)
20. See also L. Fioramonti, Report on India: The External Image of the European Union. A Preliminary Survey on the Existing Sources, GARNET, 2006.
21. D. Sharma, 'Busy Exploiting Hunger', India Together, December 2003, available at , accessed 5 March 2007.
22. Newspapers such as The New York Times gave significant prominence to the issue. See for instance the first-page article by S. Sengupta, 'On India Despairing Farms, a Plague of Suicide', The New York Times, 19 September 2006, p. 1.
23. Hindustan Times, 12 October 2006, p. 9.
24. 'EU, Co-chairs Can't Halt Tamil Ealam Goal', Hindustan Times, 1 June 2006.
25. 'EU Concerned about Non-Proliferation: Finnish Envoy', Hindustan Times, 9 October 2006.
26. R. Mohan, Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping New Foreign Policy (Penguin, London, 2005), quoted in Lisbonne de Vergeron, note 10 above, p. 9.
27. See for instance J. Coman, 'EU at a Critical Juncture', The Statesman, 26 May 2005, p. 4.
28. J. Ramesh, Making Sense of Chindia (India Research Press, New Delhi, 2005), quoted in Lisbonne de Vergeron, note 10 above, p. 23.
29. The Indian prime minister's 2005 Independence Day address, at , accessed 5 March 2007.