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Immigration is not part of the EU-India Trade Deal [0] nor the EU-India Defense Pact [1].

The only mention of mobility (not even immigration) is a vaguely worded MoU with no commitment of execution [2].

Instead, Europeans should be thankful that India has now reduced tariffs on European engineering and chemical goods to below what Chinese transshippers paid via the India-ASEAN FTA thus giving European manufacturers a much needed export market defended against Chinese overproduction, and that India will now join South Korea and Japan in arming Ukraine and the entire EU as part of ReArm Europe/Readiness2030 [3]. Heck, India has already begun defending Greece [4] and Cyprus [5] against Turkish aggression in the Aegean and investing in European infrastructure development [6].

The only people who would be opposed to the EU-India Trade and Defense Deals are those who want the EU to remain a perpetual junior partner to the US or China. In fact, China has a history of leveraging disinformation [7] to undermine EU-India relations.

Given the pattern of accounts on this thread and how it was derailed by the boogeyman of immigration, there are hallmarks of a spamoflauge operation similar to what the EU-Mercosur deal faced.

Also, individual EU states have always had the final say on immigration policy within their borders.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/details-eu-india-trade-d...

[1] - https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/security-and-defence-eu-and-...

[2] - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...

[3] - https://theprint.in/diplomacy/india-eu-sign-security-defence...

[4] - https://geetha.mil.gr/kyklos-synomilion-staff-talks-kai-ypog...

[5] - https://www.gov.cy/proedros-proedria/koini-diakiryxi-gia-tin...

[6] - https://www.lagazzettamarittima.it/2025/10/30/rixi-in-india-...

[7] - https://www.defense.gouv.fr/desinformation/nos-analyses-froi...



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