Should India join European Union (if possible)?

Answer 1

there are so many discussions about turkey entering or not, so i think that india is way too far.
also morocco officially asked to join, and they talk about cabo verde, but it will take decades before the thing get to be considered seriously

Answer 2

I don't know if that's possible. Membership is difficult to come by, standards in the EU of course would have to be met by India, such as capital punishment, freedoms, etc. Which I don't think India and for that matter many countries inthe world have met. Also by letting Indian in to the EU the EU would increase it's population almost 2 folds, something that'll greatly change the economy of all countries involved.

Why would India want to join EU? If it's for trade there is the loosely organized WTO, is it for political reasons? There is the British Commonwealth. I see no reason why India would want to join the EU, and why the EU would accept India as a member. Morocco has a better chance at becoming a member of the E.U.

Answer 3

The EU is for European countries exclusively, and why India would want to join that mess would be beyond me.
India should work with Japan, China, South Korea, and other stable Asian countries to work towards improving the standard of living for Asians. As well as working toward containing trouble spots like North Korea.

Answer 4

No India should not joint European union. Because we still developing nation. In the European union all country developed countires . If there possible join also . The European union will not any favour to our country in sense . Voting rights and our opnion they not listen . Its better not join in the Europen union.
ACtually speaking Europena formed for Europena conintent .Not For Asian Conitinent . Why all the asian found one union?

Answer 5

India has a booming economy and will become a very major player in the world in 10 years. You will benefit more by being independent from any international or political-bloc. Your nation is robust. Your currency is strengthening on the world market. Why would you want to scrap all that for the sake of joining the EU?

Answer 6

It’s an intriguing idea and shows that you’re thinking ‘outside the box’, however, I don’t know why India would want to hitch its wagon to the funeral train which is Europe’s stagnant economic engine. India’s vibrant GDP growth has been 2-3 times that of Europe over the last several years. What India should do is follow China’s example of establishing free trade agreements with its regional neighbors as well as a chance for better relations with the U.S. and western nations looking for a strategic partner in the war on terror and as an economic power to balance China’s growing influence in and unknown agenda for Asia. .

Although not quite as robust as China economically, India has two main advantages over its giant eastern neighbor. India is the world’s largest democracy and as such has political stability and little to no potential grounds for conflict with the West. China, while relatively stable has lots of trust issues with the West and still hasn’t significantly reformed its Marxist political system. China’s potential for conflict with the U.S. or E.U. due to its secretive and non-transparent decision-making processes, while slight, still exists. India should be prepared to ‘take up the slack’ in the event of a political fallout between China and the West.

Second, India is the world’s largest “English-speaking” country. This has been an enormous advantage for India in the development of it fast growing service sector and computer software industry. India has an ample supply of educated, fluent English speakers that are filling an important niche in the high tech sector and financial service sectors for Western companies in search of customer service agents and computer software engineers. These provide India numerous high-paying white collar jobs that other Asian nations can only dream about. India should continue to capitalize on these two strategic factors and forgot about E.U. membership.

Answer 7

European Union is only for countries in Europe and not for Asian countries like India.

Answer 8

No India is an emerging economic force that can only thrive better in the Asian region. It should consolidate the gains made in the past 2 decades to position itself as a giant in the Asian region. It will do much better outside the bureaucratic principles of the EU.

Answer 9

Don't be ridiculous! Even Turkey finds it difficult to join the grouping and they are much closer in proximity. Are turks europeans? How many Indians are Europeans?

Answer 10

why join the EU when we can grower a bigger economy than EU like ameica
make america our economic role model and our economy will be bigger than the whole of europe put together if we follow the proper rules we will one day have a economy just as big as america and bigger than every country in europe put together and we cant join the EU because of out geographic position but if we make an asian union with china russia and every other asian country we'll kick some EU economic *** our economy will be way way way bigger than EU if the whole of asia united in an asian union