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Polish PM Tusk visits India

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk arrived in New Delhi for a three-day visit, the first by a Polish prime minister since 2010, with talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a business forum scheduled for October 22; no agreements have been confirmed.

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Polish PM Donald Tusk arrived in Delhi.

Talks with Modi are on October 22.

A business forum follows.

Then Bengaluru on October 23.

No agreements confirmed.

In Bengaluru, Tusk will meet the governor and the chief minister and attend a business forum focused on high-technology industries, according to ThePrint.

Poland’s Minister of Finance and Economy, Andrzej Domanski, accompanies Tusk, along with a business delegation, according to The Tribune.

ThePrint reports that the delegation represents nearly 100 companies.

The leaders are expected to review ties that were elevated to a strategic partnership during Modi’s August 2024 visit to Poland, according to the reports.

Modi’s 2024 visit was the first official visit by an Indian prime minister to Poland in 45 years, and an Action Plan for 2024-2028 was adopted, according to ThePrint.

Defence cooperation is expected to be prominent, and a meeting of the Joint Working Group on Defence is likely, according to ThePrint.

Other topics include space technology, artificial intelligence, mining, green energy and food processing, according to the same report.

Global security issues, including the war in Ukraine and the conflict in West Asia, are expected to come up, according to ThePrint.

Bilateral trade is about 6 billion dollars, and Poland aims to raise it to 10 billion dollars, according to ThePrint.

India is the second-largest destination in Asia for Polish investment, according to the same report.

Indian investment in Poland exceeds 1.8 billion zloty, according to the National Bank of Poland as quoted by ThePrint.

The India-European Union free trade agreement was concluded on January 27, 2026, with signing scheduled for December 16, 2026, according to ThePrint.

No agreements have been confirmed, according to ThePrint, and the reports reviewed did not describe the outcome of the talks.

Readers should wait for the Ministry of External Affairs readout for any signed agreements.

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