Emmanuel Macron

When you speak to a French person, I mean...

The relationship with language, with multilingualism and respect of francophony is super important.

When I see your prime minister, he speaks in Hindu and I know the diversity of your languages.

It creates something very special because we don't like uniformity.

Second, we don't want to be dependent on one of the two big powers.

We want to have a good relation with the US and China.

We have different relationship, by the way, with both of them, between India and France.

But it was the whole rational of the Indo-Pacific approach, meaning a third way.

Something which is, I will not be confrontational with you, but I don't want to be dependent on you.

Let me build my own future in full respect.

And based on that, this is the fact that we really believe, both India and France, that democracy, rule of law, multilateralism, delivering concrete results, makes sense.

And we are supporters of this approach.

And in this world where the rule of law is very often replaced by, I would say, the order of the strongest people,

I really believe it makes sense and it's super attractive.

Because you can gather a lot of people, a lot of countries, a lot of goodwill.

So this is where I really believe that this approach and our partnership is not just meaningful,

but has much more potential than what we see today.

Look, I really believe that the fact that we build this partnership and this trade agreement, this free trade agreement between Europe and India,

is uh obviously due to this period of time where there is increasing skepticism or frustration vis-a-vis the us given the recent attitude and and a lot of europeans now see that india is a

the biggest place where we can build this new partnership.