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India-Belgium Relations
Belgium's prime minister spent three days in India in September 2026, turning a relationship long built on diamonds and war memory into a working agenda on defence, trade, clean energy, semiconductors and skilled migration.
Last updated 31 October 20267 min read
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Records the 19th India-BLEU Joint Economic Commission, held in Luxembourg on 29 October, and applies ruling R-34: the External Affairs Ministry's US$ 13 billion is the card's trade baseline.
- Belgium
- Bart De Wever
- Theo Francken
- India-Belgium Strategic Dialogue
- Flanders Fields
- Antwerp diamonds
- green hydrogen
- imec
- India-BLEU
- Joint Economic Commission
- Luxembourg
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