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Dear Member, dear Reader
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Urban India 2020: The New Frontier
That was the title of our last April EuroIndia Forum in Goa and Delhi. It also summarizes the main thrust of the Centre, as outlined in its new 3-year strategy "FLY A KITE".
On the 30th of September the next EU-India Summit will be held in Marseilles that will review the EU-India Strategic Partnership.
The time has come to look beyond the federal dimension of our co-operation to the city dimension! It will be hard to find a more symbolic place than Marseilles to seize such an opportunity.
The memory of Marseilles' thriving trade with British India, when the steamer "La Malle des Indes" would end its long journey through the Suez Canal at its harbour, and wealthy maharajas, nawabs and merchants would disembark, some heading straight for Dover and London on the PLM train while others headed for the palace hotels on the French Riviera, is still alive. We at the Centre, believe that this golden era of thriving direct relations between port - cities of India and Europe should be encouraged and revived.
In sharp contrast, the EU-India Partnership Agreement, only indirectly refers to this New Frontier with such a huge pent-up potential. One really wonders how some of its ambitious objectives can be achieved without directly involving Cities and Regions in Europe and Cities and States in India, which hold sway over several of the targeted areas for co-operation:
Such a political framework would prove congenial for multiple co-operative initiatives to flourish, such as the EuroIndia Centre's. Our fora and missions have proved beyond doubt that all public and private stakeholders are keen and ready to engage with one another, largely supported by business that sees it as a prerequisite to unlock a huge market potential.
We believe that such a strategic move would need to be supported by a specific funded EU-India programme that would facilitate city-to-city contacts and co - operation.
To this end, the EuroIndia Centre would be pleased to contribute its hard - earned experience in the field to the European and Indian sides.
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Yours sincerely,
Michel Sabatier
Secretary-General
PS: After the revolting bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, the Centre and its members wish to express their deepest sympathy to the afflicted and innocent victims and their families and to India, her Government and her People.
Inhuman acts like this one serves as a reminder that India is a democracy and as such is targeted, just like any of the other democracies that have taken the risk of sending their best people to help in Afghanistan's revival.
At the EuroIndia Centre, we see democracy as an essential asset that Europeans and Indians share, that justifies our single-minded advocacy for a quick return of the strong Partnership that both have enjoyed for centuries for a better and safer world.
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Member activities:
Member Prabhu Guptara, Professor and Executive Director of the UBS Wolfsberg Institute is pleased to inform you of their next Briefing on the topic "India's Emerging Role in Asian Geopolitics: The Consequences for Investment and Business" with Dr. Harsh V. Pant, Department of Defence Studies, King's College London, on Thursday, 4 September 2008, 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m., followed by buffet lunch.
Please register by 15 August at the latest.
For further information please contact Stephanie Frei (stephanie.frei@ubs.com) (e-mail or phone +41 716635651).
Board Member Shazia Aziz Wülbers, edited the book "EU India, a critique", published by Academic Foundation, Delhi, with the full support of the EuroIndia Centre, which was publicly released at the last Goa Forum. Two more members of the Centre contributed to its content: Sudanshu Rai and Surya Kumar Bose.
For ordering the book, click on http://www.academicfoundation.com/n_detail/euindia.asp
Members are requested to contact Member Shazia, should they wish to contribute to such a future publication: shazia.aziz@free.fr
Centre activities:
Co-President Colette Mathur with Secretary General Michel Sabatier visited the European Commission and the Indian embassy in Brussels on 12th June to elicit their support to our new 2008-9 action plan. Members can obtain the mission report on request from michel.sabatier@the-euroindia-centre.org.
Ahmedabad city announced its plan to send a technical team to La Rochelle at the end of August to flesh out the
co-operation M.O.U. signed at the Goa Forum in April on setting-up a reference urban heritage renovation centre
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Active participation into the specific projects which are part of our action plan is wholeheartedly invited.
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SG Michel Sabatier visited in June Citées Unies, France and the Indian Embassy in Paris for the same.
Report on the Assembly General of Members held on 3rd April available.
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The SG will be on a mission to Mumbai and Delhi from 2 to 13 August to assess Indian support to our new action plan. If interested to meet, please contact him at: michel.sabatier@the-euroindia-centre.org
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