{"id":917114,"date":"2026-04-25T07:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/917114\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:22:14","slug":"india-germany-defence-road-map-good-template-for-wider-eu-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/917114\/","title":{"rendered":"India-Germany defence road map \u2018good template\u2019 for wider EU cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/india?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India<\/a> and Germany\u2019s new defence road map could give New Delhi fresh momentum in its long-running push to modernise its undersea fleet, while helping Europe expand its security role in the Indo-Pacific, experts say.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The two countries signed a Defence Industrial Cooperation Road Map in Berlin on Wednesday, with Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, agreeing to deepen collaboration in development, production and niche technologies.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The agreement was reached during Singh\u2019s three-day visit to Germany, which aimed to give fresh momentum to the bilateral strategic partnership.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But the most closely watched element of the visit was a planned US$8 billion submarine cooperation agreement, which Pistorius said Germany expected to finalise soon.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI am very, very confident that we will be able to sign the agreement soon, especially today following the talks with His Excellency Singh and his delegation,\u201d Pistorius told reporters after both ministers visited a Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) facility.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">TKMS is set to partner with Indian state-owned Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders to manufacture the submarines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India and Germany\u2019s new defence road map could give New Delhi fresh momentum in its long-running push to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[7668,11330,257322,1395,53548,257323,2000,299,1824,730,14369,10406,257324,6026,26634],"class_list":["post-917114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-boris-pistorius","tag-brussels","tag-c-uday-bhaskar","tag-china","tag-delhi","tag-dongkeun-lee","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-india","tag-indian-ocean","tag-indo-pacific","tag-mazagon-dock-shipbuilders-limited","tag-pakistan","tag-rajnath-singh"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116464146450003616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}