European Union (EU) leaders will meet today to determine ways and means to secure a multibillion euro funding for Ukraine, which has been blocked by Hungarian PM Viktor Orban. What Is At Stake? Ukraine is in the midst of a tough period with aid from the US and EU held up. The $54 billion fund […]Read More
Nobody is speculating on the next meeting between Narendra Modi and Emmanuel Macron, but with six meetings last year alone, there is clearly a lot going on in the India-France relationship, says Arun Kumar Singh, former ambassador to France. Ambassador Singh was on The Gist, talking about President Macron’s recent visit and the many takeaways, […]Read More
“It’s not very often that two leaders are successively guests of honour at each other’s national day. Also, this is the 6th time a French leader has come for India’s national day.” That was Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra briefing the media on President Emmanuel Macron’s visit. He also noted that Modi and Macron had met […]Read More
People of Jaipur lined the roads since early morning, holding up posters of French President Emmanuel Macron as he landed on Thursday in the city for his official two-day visit to India. Macron, who is the Chief Guest at India’s Republic Day parade in New Delhi was greeted by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Rajasthan […]Read More
In July last year, the Center for Strategic & International Studies authored a study titled France and India: Two Nuances of ‘Strategic Autonomy’. The opening line of the study quoted a former Japanese deputy national security adviser as saying: “We know India will be a very difficult superpower – like a big France.” In fact, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has become a major priority for Spain’s foreign and security policy, says Colonel Jose Pardo De Santayana, Chief Analyst at the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies, Madrid. In New Delhi for the Spain-India Forum, a bilateral summit where he was part of a panel discussion on a ‘New Indo-Pacific Security Architecture: Partnerships […]Read More
The French ambassador to the West African Republic of Niger flew out of the capital Niamey on Wednesday, the first sign that Paris may be getting ready to acknowledge that its century-old colonial presence is changing in ways perhaps never anticipated. France’s 1,500 troops are expected to leave in the coming months. Macron announced, “We […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Little under a fortnight ago, India, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Israel and the European Union inked an agreement for an economic corridor connecting India with Europe through the Middle East. This deal co-authored by the United States and India was clinched on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting in New […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The clock is ticking on the 60-day deadline set for fleshing out the ambitious IMEC (India-Middle East-Europe Corridor) project, seen as an alternative to China’s BRI. “The ministers will have to meet in 60 days to see if IMEC makes financial sense. Only there can we make a judgement on how it is […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “A game-changing regional investment” is how U.S. President Joe Biden put it. Call it an unexpected spin-off of the G20 summit in Delhi: an economic corridor linking India, the Middle East and Europe. An MoU has been signed to this effect by the U.S., India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, […]Read More
At the 15th BRICS summit in Johannesburg, Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping, while exchanging words, merely committed to expedite disengagement along their disputed border. This casts doubt on Xi Jinping’s G20 summit attendance in Delhi on Sept 7. Meanwhile, BRICS welcomes six new members, including energy giants Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Iran. India’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s list of 28 strategic partners ranging from the US and France at one end to Uzbekistan and Mongolia at the other, is all set to grow: on Friday Greece will join that list with Prime Minister Modi doing the honours in Athens with his counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Why Greece? The last time […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An Inquiry report on China released by the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of British Parliament last month accuses the government and the country’s intelligence agencies of sacrificing strategic interests for economic considerations. “China’s size, ambition and capability have enabled it to successfully penetrate every sector of the UK’s economy, and—until the Covid-19 […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s position on the Ukraine conflict has been expressed in many forums, be it the UN, the G20, and bilaterally with our major partners, including the US. Yet, during the recent visit of Robert Habeck, the German Vice-Chancellor and Economic Affairs Minister, to India for a G20 meeting, while answering a leading question […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Last week, Russia bombed the Ukrainian port of Odessa, destroying around 60,000 tons of grain stored for export. It came two days after Russia walked out of the one-year-old Black Sea Grain deal whereby it had agreed not to attack ships carrying Ukrainian grain to overseas destinations, around 33 million tons were exported […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to France took the bilateral strategic ties to a different level. There were several agreements in different areas and both leaders even agreed to adopt a roadmap to set the course for the bilateral relationship till 2047 that will mark 100 years of India-France ties. But some […]Read More
NEW DELHI: If Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Paris was steeped in symbolism, the outcomes of the trip have taken the trajectory of bilateral ties to a different level. The biggest takeaway is the announcement that both sides will co-develop a military jet engine for the advanced medium combat aircraft that India will induct […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Hours after the German Cabinet released its first China Strategy paper on Thursday, which called Beijing out over its unfair practices and aggressive actions, the Chinese embassy in Beijing warned against “meddling” in China’s internal affairs and said “China will resolutely safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests”. While reiterating its One China […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India-EU trade, currently at around $135 billion, could see a major boost if negotiators are able to wrap up talks on a free trade area by early next year. The word is discussions are going well and Stratnews Global learns from official and non-official sources that even prickly issues like labour, environment standards […]Read More
Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, is in recession. The country’s GDP fell 0.3 percent in the first quarter of this year, after tanking half a percent in the quarter before. And two back-to-back quarters of declining output technically mean a recession. So what has gone wrong in the world’s fourth-largest economy?Read More
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