ment'. Both the Indian and EEC sides have been at pains to stress that the environment is very favourable for promoting commercial and economic relations between India and EEC as a group as well as with the individual countries of the EEC. The official EEC brief had the following to state in this connection: "In view of the Indian tendency to encourage economic and commercial links in a political context, a more intensive relationship will require a recognition by the two sides of the need to give their relationship a political dimension".