NEW DELHI: 2021 has turned out to be the Royal Family’s “annus horribilis II.” The word was first coined by the Queen in 1992 to describe a year where three of her children’s marriages ended in divorce and 100 rooms in Windsor Castle burnt down. What made it even worse was “Fergiegate” – when British […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Ambassador Mohan Kumar, India’s Former Envoy to France, Chairman of the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) think-tank, Dean, International Affairs and Professor of Diplomatic Practice at Jindal Global University in analysis with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Dr Kumar discusses the third India-France Annual Defence […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Europe is once again the “epicentre of the pandemic.” These alarming words stated by none other than WHO’s Regional Europe Director Dr Hans Kluge showed that despite lockdowns and stringent rules, the 27-member-nation bloc had failed to curb Covid-19. Statistics in the WHO’s weekly report showed that Europe had reported a “5% increase […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Modi had a quiet, one-to-one with Pope Francis at the Vatican just ahead of the G-20 summit on Saturday. There were no details immediately available as to what transpired and Modi’s comments conveyed even less: “Had a very warm meeting with Pope Francis. I had the opportunity to discuss a wide […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The two-day visit of British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was heavily fixated on climate change, an indication of the importance London attaches to a successful outcome of the COP26 summit in Glasgow later this month. The UK will be investing over eleven million pounds into two venture capital funds aimed at supporting India’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It seems France and the US are ready to kiss and make up: Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be in Paris on Tuesday for talks with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, “to identify the steps that will be needed to re-establish confidence between our two countries,” the French foreign ministry said. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An era has ended in Germany! The 16-year chancellorship of Angela Merkel and the stability and leadership she brought, both to Germany and to Europe, may never be seen again. So what’s in store for Germany, Europe and of course India? In this conversation on The Gist, Padma Rao Sundarji, former South Asia […]Read More
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
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