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
NEW DELHI: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson (BoJo) is expected to be the chief guest at the Republic Day parade in January next year. If he does, he will join a list of luminaries including Barack Obama, Cyril Ramaphosa and Jair Bolsonaro. The invitation is understood to have been extended by Prime Minister Modi during […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ursula Von Der Leyen is acknowledged to be among the most diplomatic of diplomats, but as president of the European Commission, she could not hide her satisfaction that President Donald Trump – who has had a testy relationship with his trans-Atlantic neighbours – was finally exiting the White House. At a briefing on […]Read More
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