Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday for a three-day visit centered on talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 22, with defense-industrial cooperation, trade and the India-EU free trade agreement topping the agenda, The Hindu BusinessLine and Reuters reported.
Tusk, accompanied by Poland's Minister of Finance and Economy Andrzej Domański and a large business delegation, was received at the airport by Minister of State Dr Raj Bhushan Choudhary. According to India's Ministry of External Affairs, Tusk met External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday, visited Rajghat to lay a wreath at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial, and then proceeded to Hyderabad House for talks with Modi, after which both leaders were to issue press statements.
The two sides aim to convert the strategic partnership — elevated during Modi's visit to Warsaw in August 2024 — into concrete industrial outcomes. Poland wants to deepen defense-industry ties with India, including potential collaboration on equipment upgrades, technology and joint manufacturing, and to finalize agreements such as a classified-information confidentiality arrangement. Bilateral trade, currently about $6 billion, is targeted to roughly double, and business forums are scheduled in New Delhi on October 22 and Bengaluru on October 23.
The visit also carries a broader European dimension. The MEA said it would deepen the India-EU strategic partnership ahead of an India-EU summit in Brussels on December 16, where the long-negotiated free trade agreement is expected to be signed — a deal both governments say would give the bilateral relationship a significant boost.
Regional and global issues, including the Russia-Ukraine war, are on the table as well. For Warsaw, closer engagement with New Delhi fits a push to diversify defense suppliers and economic partners; for New Delhi, it is another step in building European partnerships that deliver technology, investment and supply-chain resilience. The test of the visit will be whether it produces specific agreements and industrial commitments rather than broad statements of intent.