Overview
- In a Bloomberg podcast published September 24, the Finnish president said India should not be placed with Russia and China and urged the EU and U.S. to work with New Delhi.
- He called India an emerging superpower with demographic and economic momentum, contrasting it with a tight Russia–China link in energy and technology that he said enables Moscow’s war.
- Stubb highlighted recent outreach to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and backed faster movement on an India–EU free-trade deal and cooperation in quantum, 6G, AI, cybersecurity and sustainability.
- His comments arrive after Washington imposed steep tariff penalties tied to India’s purchases of Russian crude, escalating friction in U.S.–India trade ties.
- Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy said India is mostly with the West and urged closer ties despite continuing questions over Russian energy imports.