
Modi France Visit 2026 | India-France Ties | UPSCPDF
UPSCPDF Editorial Analysis: Modi
💡 Key Takeaways | 🕰️ Evolution of India–France Relations | ✨ Why India–France Ties Are Unique | 🔍 Core Concepts (High-Yield) | 🛩️ Defence & Security | 🛰️ Space & ⚛️ Nuclear / Energy | 💡 Technology, Trade & Global Reach | 📊 Marks Distribution Strategy | 📝 Model Answer | 🧩 Key Dimensions | 🧩 Related Practice Questions | 🧭 Quick Framing Angles | 👥 Key Actors & Stakeholders | 🔑 One-Page Revision Cloud | 🇮🇳🇫🇷 India & France: A Partnership Built on Trust
The ‘Special Global Strategic Partnership’, Defence & Technology Co-operation, the Évian G7 Summit, VivaTech & India as a Voice of the Global South Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a six-day visit to France and Slovakia (13–18 June 2026). In France he holds a bilateral summit with President Emmanuel Macron in Nice, then joins the 52nd G7 Summit at Évian (16–17 June) as a special invitee, with a leg at the VivaTech technology fair in Paris. En route, he makes the first-ever state visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Slovakia since its independence in 1993. The visit follows the February 2026 elevation of the relationship to a “Special Global Strategic Partnership” (during President Macron’s India visit for the AI Impact Summit), itself building on the Horizon 2047 Roadmap unveiled in 2023. The agenda spans defence co-production, technology and innovation (AI, start-ups, deep tech), space, civil-nuclear and energy security, and coordi
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