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This paper covers the EU-India Journalists' Conference from May 2005 as a platform for general discussion on EU-India relations. The paper articulates the perception of India as potentially ideal partner for the EU and emphasizes the need for the development of a strategic partnership by deepening mutual understanding and dialogue on social, economic and cultural issues. The authors conclude that while the EU and India share common objectives, each faces different internal concerns that often direct their external policies in different directions, making a partnership more difficult to manage. The authors argue that the EU and India should engage in a broader dialogue concerning multiculturalism, globalization, discrimination, and religious and nationalist fundamentalism and state that the newly agreed upon India-EU Parliamentary Forum should play a prominent role in such a process.