NEW DELHI: There is a new vigour in India-EU relationship. After a very successful India-EU summit in May, both sides are now looking to implement the decisions taken at the summit. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is making special effort to reach out to as many European countries as possible. Currently in Italy for the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “The European Union has paid less attention to India than it should have.” With that Portugal’s foreign minister Augusto Santos Silva pointed out how the EU’s Indo-Pacific strategy and the outreach to Delhi drew from Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy and the national strategies of Holland, the UK and Germany. “So we needed to focus […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As part of the green strategic partnership signed with India last year, Denmark is collaborating across sectors such as wind energy, drinking water management and smart cities, says Denmark’s Ambassador to India Freddy Svane. Expressing concern over climate change on World Environment Day, he told StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale that all […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Call it the Covid effect but the third Arctic Science Ministerial hosted virtually by Iceland and Japan last month happened with apparently little notice. But to those interested in the Arctic, it signalled India’s renewed focus on a region more than 4000-km distant yet critical to its economy. Scientists and officials involved in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A trade deal between the European Union and China that was clinched after seven years of negotiations has now been put on hold by the EU parliament. This after China sanctioned a host of EU officials in retaliation for sanctions imposed by the EU on four Chinese officials over human rights abuses in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: May 29 marks one year since the start of protests in Belarus against President Aleksandr Lukashenko. A harsh crackdown last year has intensified after his disputed August 2020 reelection. Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist since 1994, won his sixth term in office. Forced into exiled, opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As summits go, Narendra Modi’s virtual hook-up with 27 leaders of the European Union over the weekend appeared to tick all the right boxes. This is only the second time that the EU has “summitted” with one country (the other being the US). Also, the summit included the 17 Central and East European […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the virtual summit between India and the 27-member European Union (EU) on Saturday, both sides exuded optimism about the larger relationship although carefully skirting any expectations about a breakthrough in talks on a free trade area (FTA). In a jointly-penned editorial in the online magazine Politico, Narendra Modi and his Portuguese […]Read More
Deeper economic co-operation between India and the UK was already on the agenda before Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his British counterpart Prime Minister Boris Johnson held their virtual summit but the takeaways were still impressive. The first step was the adoption of ‘Roadmap 2030’ which will provide a framework for UK-India relations across health, […]Read More
New Delhi: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and India’s PM Narendra Modi are to virtually interact after the former’s April 26 visit to India was put off for the second time this year because of COVID. On ‘Talking Point’, Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, Senior Fellow for South Asia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in […]Read More
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