India and European Union have stressed the need for greater parliamentary exchanges. Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari who met the President of the European Council Mr Herman Van Rompuy in Brussels today, reviewed the state of India-EU relations, which they described as strategically important. Both sides expressed happiness on the larger areas of convergence on many important issues.The two sides also discussed the broad based agreement on trade and stressed for substantial progress in the near future. Mr Ansari, who is in Brussels to attend the eighth Asia-Europe Summit, described the formation of the European Union as a unique achievement. Mr Rompuy said the European Union is looking forward to increasing engagements with emerging Asian powers including India.