{"id":10773,"date":"2023-05-13T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T02:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10773"},"modified":"2025-03-29T22:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:05:48","slug":"india-eu-trade-and-technology-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/india-eu-trade-and-technology-council\/","title":{"rendered":"India-EU Trade and Technology Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About India-EU Trade and Technology Council:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The meeting will be co-chaired on the Indian side by the Ministers for External Affairs, Commerce and Industry, and Communications, Electronics, and Information Technology.<\/li>\n<li>Trade and Technology Council was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen during Ms Leyen&#8217;s visit to India in April last year.<\/li>\n<li>Both sides established three Working Groups under the Council.<\/li>\n<li>These are Working Group on Strategic Technologies, Digital Governance, and Digital Connectivity, Working Group on Green and Clean Energy Technologies, and Working Group on Trade, Investment and Resilient Value Chains.<\/li>\n<li>Meetings of the three Working Groups have also taken place leading to the Ministerial meeting in Brussels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Why is digital connectivity important?<\/h3>\n<p>Bridging the gap between product and buyer, digital connectivity has allowed businesses to establish familiarity amongst customers. After all, accessibility is key for businesses wanting to reach their target audiences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=1st-Ministerial-meeting-of-India-EU-Trade-and-Technology-Council-to-be-held-in-Brussels-on-16th-May&amp;id=460831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>1st Ministerial meeting of India-EU Trade and Technology Council to be held in Brussels on 16th May<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meetings of the three Working Groups have also taken place leading to the Ministerial meeting in Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}