Overview
- Following Saturday talks in The Hague, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten raised the relationship to a Strategic Partnership and adopted a joint roadmap.
- The leaders witnessed an ASML–Tata Electronics agreement to support a semiconductor fab in Dholera, marking ASML’s first such partnership with India and a step toward local chipmaking capacity.
- They launched an India–Netherlands green hydrogen roadmap and agreed to explore a defence industrial roadmap, with broader cooperation spanning AI, space, quantum, water and education.
- A package of 17 pacts covered sectors such as semiconductors, critical minerals, renewable energy, health, agriculture, mobility and culture, with both sides urging early implementation of the India–EU free trade agreement.
- Both leaders flagged disruptions from the West Asia crisis and called for freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, which carries about a fifth of global energy supplies, and Modi departed for Sweden on Sunday after cultural restitution that included the return of 11th‑century Chola copper plates.