{"id":196721,"date":"2025-12-21T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/196721\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:01:15","slug":"why-india-to-europe-trade-corridor-is-stalling-even-as-talks-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/196721\/","title":{"rendered":"Why India to Europe trade corridor is stalling even as talks continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discussions on the India\u2013Middle East\u2013Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) are being revived by some of its founders even as questions persist over the political will to implement the ambitious project, with analysts saying the Gaza situation is a key hurdle in hampering progress.<\/p>\n

Unveiled in 2023, IMEC is positioned as a single economic artery connecting South Asia, the Middle East and Europe through shipping lanes, railways, energy pipelines and high-speed data cables running via the Gulf.<\/p>\n

Planners for the corridor aim to reduce transit times and costs across the three regions, and counter China\u2019s growing economic footprint through the Belt and Road Initiative<\/a>.Analysts have cautioned that the project is challenging to bring to completion, as political dynamics arising from the Gaza conflict<\/a>, regional security and cross-border coordination remain complicated.India<\/a> and the United Arab Emirates<\/a> reiterated their commitment to IMEC during the 16th India\u2013UAE Joint Commission meeting and the fifth bilateral Strategic Dialogue in Abu Dhabi on Monday, with both countries also emphasising deeper cooperation with the Global South.\"WorldWorld leaders take part in the IMEC meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit on September 9, 2023. Photo: Presidential Court\/EPA-EFEThe Abu Dhabi talks were followed by Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar\u2019s visit to Israel, where he met President Isaac Herzog<\/a>, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> and Economy and Industry Minister Nir Barkat on Tuesday to discuss trade and other matters, including the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discussions on the India\u2013Middle East\u2013Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) are being revived by some of its founders even as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1585,32964,1657,1685,2226,13696,170,85,207,72689,111619,46,2971,43,106917,78,79,208],"class_list":["post-196721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-belt-and-road-initiative","tag-china","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-gaza-conflict","tag-germany","tag-il","tag-india","tag-india-middle-east-europe-economic-corridor","tag-iran-israel-conflict","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-news","tag-s-jaishankar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}