Italy-India ready for partnership in a new era

Ambassador Antonio Bartoli: The Joint Strategic Action Plan is a testimony to our two Prime Ministers’ ambition to translate the strategic partnership between Italy and India into mutually beneficial initiatives and concrete results. So, our leaders identified ten priority areas for closer bilateral cooperation: political dialogue, which is a precondition, and then trade and investment, science, technology, innovation, startups, space, defence, talent, mobility, migration, connectivity, energy transition, security, and, I would say, people-to-people [ties]. So, culture, inter-university cooperation and sport. You spoke of ten areas where the two countries are cooperating…

Ambassador Antonio Bartoli: Our aim is to enhance and rebalance both trade and investments. Bilateral trade exchange between our countries is in total more than €14 billion, €9 billion of India’s export to Italy and €5 billion of Italy’s export to India. In investments, Italy is making a lot of headway. We have more than €7 billion of Italian FDI in India. And we calculated that new investments, realised or announced, in the first half of 2025 amount to approximately anadditional half billion euros. We also want to attract important strategic investments from Indian entrepreneurs to Italy. Deepening economic ties between friendly countries like us is a key factor in supply chain resilience.

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