Marseille, June 13 -- Europe is now more self-aware, strategically autonomous and thinks about global issues from European perspective rather than a collective and all this has policy implications, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday and noted that France is in many ways is India's most trusted partner in Europe.

Speaking at the Raisina Mediterranean 2025 conference, Jaishankar said that India and France have had willingness to "stratagise for ourselves".

He laid emphasis on the value of trust and pointed to the need of resilient and reliable supply chains.

"I totally agree that one of the things which have gone with the world is a kind of cost determinism by which choices have been made. The result of the cost determ...