The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will travel to India this Sunday accompanied by his wife, Begoña Gómez, to, among other objectives, sell the Spanish audiovisual ‘hub’ to Bollywood studios to be able to shoot and produce their films.
The Chief Executive will travel to India this Sunday and will remain there until Tuesday, October 29on an official visit in which he will be accompanied by his wife, Begoña Gómez, who will have a parallel agenda to the institutional onewhich is still to be determined, according to sources from La Moncloa.
It is about the first official trip that Gómez will make since she is investigated for alleged crimes of influence peddling and corruption in business. However, Executive sources were adamant in rejecting that Gómez’s presence overshadowed the president’s trip.
Thus, they clarified that his wife’s trip responds to the invitation from the Indian Government and will include some event, still unspecified, although it is expected that she will hold a visit to Nita Ambani’s foundationwife of Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani.
The main objective of this visit is to relaunch the commercial relationship between Spain and India and will feature two important events. The first focuses on obtaining for the company Navantia, whose president will also travel with Sánchez, the contract of 4,620 million euros for Spain to build six submariness. This Indian award is in dispute with Germany and Sánchez will meet Modi right after the visit of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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Secondly, Sánchez will seek to get the Indian audiovisual industry, Bollywood, to pay attention to Spain and commission its audiovisual ‘hub’ to produce and record part of its productions. Besides, The trip will feature a meeting with the country’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modiand the inauguration of an Airbus factory next to it.
The visit has a prominent economic component and commercial and from Madrid a group of businessmen with interests in India will also travel alongside the head of the Executive and will include two stages in the cities of Vadodara and Bombay. Thus, Sánchez and the Spanish delegation will arrive on Sunday in Vadodara, Modi’s place of origin and where both leaders will hold a meeting and inaugurate the factory of the Airbus company, in whose capital Spain participates, in which 40 of the 56 planes will be manufactured. C295 that was ordered by the Indian Air Force.
According to Moncloa sources, it is a plane that is used for military transport whose design and manufacture is Spanish and also has a 80% market share in the last ten years.
Bombay will be the second stop on the trip, where a business forum will be held with representatives of Spanish and Indian companies and the President of the Government will also be held. will visit a technology center of the Tata company and then he will move to the studios of the Bollywood film industry.
The Executive places emphasis on this enclave, since there have already been Indian productions filmed in Spain and the objective is for them to multiply and even for studies to be established in Spanish territory.
This is the first trip that Sánchez has made to India with the aim of relaunching bilateral relations, being aware of the weight that the Asian country is gaining in all areas and the role it can play in confronting great global challenges such as the fight against climate change.
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