Relationship dossier
Germany
India
Relationship assessment
Strategic partnership with sustained cooperation and some foreign-policy differences
Germany toward India
+50Germany has pursued a strategic partnership with India through regular intergovernmental consultations and bilateral cooperation in areas such as skills, technology, climate and energy. Germany and India launched a Green and Sustainable Development Partnership to deepen cooperation on sustainable development.
India toward Germany
+50India has engaged Germany through the strategic partnership and regular intergovernmental consultations, and has worked with the German government on trade, technology, skills, climate and energy cooperation. The two governments launched a Green and Sustainable Development Partnership.
Overall relationship
+50A durable strategic partnership, regular high-level consultations and practical cooperation across economic, technological and climate-related fields underpin the relationship. Differences in foreign-policy positions, particularly regarding Russia’s war in Ukraine, and concerns involving human rights create friction, while substantial bilateral engagement continues.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Germany and India maintain a strategic partnership with regular intergovernmental consultations and cooperation in areas including trade, technology, skills, climate and energy. Their governments have expanded cooperation through a Green and Sustainable Development Partnership. Differences over Russia’s war in Ukraine and other foreign-policy and human-rights questions complicate, but do not outweigh, sustained bilateral engagement.
Areas of tension
- Germany and India have differed over their responses to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
- Human-rights concerns have been a point of political sensitivity in the relationship.
Key developments
Germany and India established a strategic partnership.
The two governments began regular intergovernmental consultations.
Germany and India launched a Green and Sustainable Development Partnership.
Major uncertainties
- The scale and implementation of commitments under the Green and Sustainable Development Partnership vary across policy areas.
- The extent to which differences over Russia and human-rights issues affect future bilateral cooperation is uncertain.