According to reports on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will go to four European countries next month. They also stated that the official trip is probably scheduled for May 15–20.
According to the reports, PM Modi will travel to Norway first, then Sweden, the Netherlands, and Italy. They claim that the Prime Minister will travel to Norway to attend the India-Nordic Summit.
The visit's announcement coincides with growing international unpredictability brought on by the continuous conflict between Iran and its proxies and the US-Israeli combined front. Fuel shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, which handled approximately 20% of the world's crude supply prior to the war, have been negatively disrupted by the conflict.

EU-India Free Trade Agreement
With the exception of Norway, all four of the nations PM Modi will be visiting are EU members. He will travel to Europe for the first time since India and the EU agreed a historic bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in January of this year.
After years of consistent communication and collaboration, the two parties jointly announced the end of the India-EU free trade agreement discussions. The EU and India started negotiating the trade agreement in 2007.
However, disagreements over the extent of the agreement caused the negotiations to be halted in 2013. In June 2022, some ten years later, the negotiations restarted.One of India's biggest commercial partners is the EU, with bilateral commerce in products and services increasing significantly over time. India's bilateral trade in goods with the EU totalled Rs 11.5 lakh crore (USD 136.54 billion) in 2024–2025, with Rs 6.4 lakh crore (USD 75.85 billion) in exports and Rs 5.1 lakh crore (USD 60.68 billion) in imports.
In 2024, the two countries' bilateral service trade totalled Rs 7.2 lakh crore (USD 83.10 billion).
The India-EU Free Trade Agreement, dubbed the "mother of all deals," will permit 93% of Indian goods to join the 27-nation bloc duty-free. In exchange, the cost of imports will be reduced for high-end vehicles and wines made inside the EU.

"Beyond a conventional trade deal, it represents a comprehensive partnership with strategic dimensions and is one of the most consequential FTA," the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry stated at the time of the announcement. More than 99% of India's exports by trade value to the EU now have unparalleled market access, supporting the "Make in India" campaign.