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New Year Wishes
Dear members and friends,
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2009 is going to be a challenge for all of us and for our Centre, in particular, which has embarked upon a new and ambitious three-year strategy called F.L.Y. A. K.I.T.E.
We'd like to look at the World crisis as a passing mutation when cards are reshuffled among peoples and countries of the World. India's rate of growth is certain to be hit but is likely to remain above 5% of GNP. Does it not make it still a very enviable proposition for Europeans in search of new growth areas and reliable partners? Does not the relative decline of the U.S. make Europe comparatively more attractive to Indians? Is it not the time for Indians and Europeans to enhance their budding Strategic Partnership and for India to join the select club of World leaders who will shape a saner future for the planet?
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Michel Sabatier,
Secretary General
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We, at the EuroIndia Centre, shall keep trying to bring substance, drive and guidance to this partnership as much as we can within our limited means, by supplementing existing official channels and by opening untapped channels at the level of Cities, Regions and States, with the hope to help City-to-city exchanges regain the paramount position it had for over two millennia in thriving trade exchanges between India and Europe for mutual benefit.
The success of two EuroIndia Fora and of two missions of Indian cities to Europe has emboldened us to scale-up our reach in order to build up a unique local level Euro-Indian platform, starting with the four K.I.T.E. areas of Knowledge, Investment, Tourism and urban Excellence. It will involve forging new tools such as a revamped Website, a quarterly newsletter and a EuroIndia House in Delhi with our Indian Strategic Partner, the Confederation of Indian Industry.
In spite of the impending general elections in India in the first half of the year, we plan a few major events in 2009-10 such as:
15 June 2009: Assembly General of Members in Paris
4-6 October 2009: The first EuroIndia City Summit hosted by member city
Valladolid (Spain).
On November 26th 2009, the anniversary date of the terrorist attack of Mumbai, a EuroIndia Conference will be organized on "Urban Security" at the Taj Mahal Hotel.
In February 2010: The 3rd EuroIndia Forum hosted by an Indian member city.
Our activities and services will primarily target our members, especially Cities, Regions, States and Companies. Ahmedabad, Halle, Pune, Valladolid have already heeded our call for membership.
We invite you to follow their example and join the Centre. With a critical mass of members, we'll be better equipped to serve you better with your fellow-members as partners. In the process, we'll do justice to our Euro-Indian Partnership cause and to the huge potential for exchange and co-operation that exists at local level.
Our sincere good "New" Year wishes to all our readers and members, their family and colleagues,
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Yours sincerely,
Michel Sabatier,
Secretary General
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Vantage Point |
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India, the world's largest democracy, will soon have general elections. The Election Commission has announced elections to the 'Lok Sabha', the Indian Parliament.
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Politics and Economy |
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India's current account, fiscal deficit widen, outlook gloomy
India's economic growth has slowed to 7.8 % in the first half of the current fiscal as compared to 9.3% in the April-September, 2007-08.
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Policy & Regulations |
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Cabinet approves Integrated Energy Policy.
New FDI policy opens it all
Limited liability partnership act passed.
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| Mayor of The Hague elected as new President of EUROCITIES. Jozias van Aartsen, Mayor of The Hague, is the new President of EUROCITIES. He was voted in by EUROCITIES members at the network's Annual General Meeting on 28 November in The Hague. The new President succeeds Gérard Collomb, Mayor of Lyon.
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