Today, Vice President of India, Sh. M. Hamid Ansari inaugurates International Seminar on ‘Europe & Emerging Asia’ organized by Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, University of Calcutta” in Kolkata (West Bengal). He addresses in the ceremony “I thank the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, University of Calcutta, for inviting me today to inaugurate this seminar and commend the organizers for choosing a weighty and relevant theme. The distinguished participants would perhaps have noted this city’s own linkages to Europe over the past three centuries.