India was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the then European Economic Community (EEC) in the early 1960’s. The relationship between India and the EU is a crucial piece of global governance where two major democracies may show themselves capable of providing an input to reforming global governance. European union, India biggest trading partner, stands today as the world’s biggest economic bloc with a GDP of €12.894 trillion. India has a number of affinities with Europe and with European Union, not least since both, are an economic and political unions of a number of linguistically, culturally and ethnically different states. Both are unwieldy unions of just under thirty states, both are bureaucratic, both are coalition- ridden and both are slow to make decisions.