” “"India is an emerging leading country, a geopolitical centre of gravity and a crossroads between the emerging East, the Middle East and Central Asia". After all, "the EU is for India not just the greatest trade partner but also its main source of direct financial overseas investments". The document adopted at the latest session of the EU Parliament, in the run-up to the EU-India summit of October 13th, has been signed by the British MEP Sajjad Karim. The 25 EU member states are proving to be increasingly attentive to the great Asian country, which has a population of over one billion, a powerful economic development and some excellent industries, such as new technology and applied computer sciences. To prepare the summit, over these days the president of the EU Parliament is in India: yesterday, Josep Borrell visited the space centre of Vikram Sarabhaire, "a tangible sign of cooperation between the EU and India on the Galileo satellite project". Barroso’s Commission is going instead to reassert, during the summit, "his commitment to support the economic reforms" and "will try to make India commit itself to world- and regional-scale political issues, such as climate change, the non proliferation of weapons, the promotion of peace" in southern Asia.” “
