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
New Delhi: While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to reschedule his May 2021 France visit, Delhi-Paris ties are on the upswing. On ‘The Gist‘ , Ambassador Mohan Kumar, India’s Former Envoy to France and Chairman, RIS and StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi discuss the two countries’ relationship, high level visits by Jean-Yves […]Read More
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
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