The British government has successfully countered the Covid second wave, but the crisis over Liberty Steel could deal a body blow to the economic recovery slowly getting underway. Liberty Steel owned by billionaire Sanjeev Gupta, is in deep crisis after its major source of funds Greensill Capital, filed for bankruptcy earlier this month. Gupta has […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On a morning in May, the 27-member state European Union will sit down for a summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Portugal’s second-largest city Porto. The agenda is being finalised but is expected to include the on-again, off-again talks on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). “The FTA issue is seeing some kind […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, Ambassador Freddy Svane discusses relations being elevated to a Green Strategic Partnership at the virtual summit between Prime Ministers Mette Frederiksen and Narendra Modi on September 28, 2020, how the action plan is progressing, Denmark’s wind energy artificial islands that are planned to supply four million households power, how Copenhagen can help […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Breakups are always painful and if you add a global pandemic into the mix you have a recipe for disaster. This terse but cogent statement seems to adequately sum up the EU-UK relationship at the moment. Tit-for-tat with Europe The most recent blow comes as the UK announced that it has sealed a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There is no cause for alarm in UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelling his India visit, says former foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai. In an interview with StratNews Global Opinion Editor Ashwin Ahmad, Mathai said it would be bad optics for Johnson to leave his country at a time the pandemic is seeing a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Boris Johnson has done what was seen as the impossible – he’s secured a trade deal with the EU. Political watchers in the UK sensed something was afoot when Johnson and the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen burnt the midnight oil in Brussels on Wednesday. There were also reports that the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has suspended all flights from London until December 31. With this New Delhi becomes the latest in a long list of nations across Europe, Asia and South America to suspend or ban flights from the UK flights and imposed strict quarantine rules on arriving British passengers. ‘This suspension to start w.e.f. 23.59 […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Given that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scheduled to visit India as Chief Guest for Republic Day next year it was no surprise to see Dominic Raab come bearing gifts. The British Foreign Secretary who held an over four-hour-long dialogue with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar at Hyderabad House on Tuesday unveiled a range of goodies that would […]Read More
NEW DELHI: British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s visit to India comes at what some see is a very delicate time for India-UK relations. On the British side, there are a number of MPs – most of them from the Labour Party – urging him to voice Britain’s disapproval to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar [who […]Read More
NEW DELHI: At a time when hate crimes against Sikhs in the UK have risen by 70%, one would have thought the community there would be focused on dealing with it. Instead, they appear more galvanised by the farmers agitation in India against the government’s farm laws. As if that were not enough, Sikh and […]Read More
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