{"id":35724,"date":"2026-09-03T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/35724\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:02:12","slug":"india-belgium-deepen-defence-ties-with-new-mous-joint-manufacturing-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/35724\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Belgium deepen defence ties with new MoUs, joint manufacturing plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Belgian counterpart Theo Francken discussed combining Belgian technology with India\u2019s manufacturing capabilities during delegation-level talks in New Delhi <\/p>\n<p class=\"forfirstp\">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held delegation-level talks with Belgian Defence and Trade Minister Theo Francken in New Delhi on Thursday, with the two sides discussing ways to expand defence industrial cooperation and strengthen their strategic partnership.<\/p>\n<p>The talks focused on combining Belgium\u2019s advanced defence technologies with India\u2019s manufacturing capabilities. The two sides also signed multiple Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) and joint contracts aimed at promoting greater cooperation between their defence industries.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the meeting, Singh said closer cooperation was important at a time of growing geopolitical and economic uncertainty around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world is witnessing a time of great geopolitical and economic turmoil. Most of it is not our doing, but we have to handle the challenges,&#8221; Singh said, referring to ongoing conflicts in West Asia and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In such situations, meeting a friend and partner like you provides a useful opportunity to exchange views and perspectives,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Singh said defence-industrial cooperation would remain a key focus of the bilateral partnership. He also called for greater engagement between Indian private-sector defence companies and Belgian defence firms.<\/p>\n<p>Francken welcomed closer cooperation with India and praised the country&#8217;s technological capabilities and industrial scale. He said Belgium could benefit from India&#8217;s expertise while also contributing its own technology to joint projects.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.firstpost.com\/dlxczavtqcctuei\/news18\/static\/images\/fp\/revamp_v1\/india.svg\" alt=\"india\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" class=\"nvicsvg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>More from India<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can learn so much from you. You are a high-technology country,&#8221; Francken said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Belgium is an old Western European country with a lot of technology, but we need countries like India. We need to collaborate on future projects, and for Belgium, this is the way forward,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Francken is visiting India as part of a high-level Belgian delegation led by Prime Minister Bart De Wever.<\/p>\n<p>His meeting with Singh comes ahead of talks between De Wever and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The two leaders are expected to discuss bilateral relations, including trade, defence and security cooperation, as well as broader India-European Union strategic ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Belgian counterpart Theo Francken discussed combining Belgian technology with India\u2019s manufacturing capabilities during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,7812,19205,19207,19204,19206,19127,4509,430],"class_list":["post-35724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-defence-cooperation","tag-defence-technology","tag-geopolitical-uncertainty","tag-india-belgium-defence-talks","tag-make-in-india","tag-rajnath-singh","tag-strategic-partnership","tag-theo-francken"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117206302446272230","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}