Fighter jet deal at centre of Macron's Serbia tripFrance and Serbia are on the verge of signing a multi-billion euro deal for Rafale fighter jets during President Emmanuel Macron's visit to...
29 Aug, 2024, 06.57 PM IST
What Ukraine needs to do to keep its EU membership bid goingBrussels offered Kyiv candidate status four months after Moscow's February 2022 invasion, prompting a rush by Ukrainian authorities to refo...
15 Dec, 2023, 02.54 PM IST
Martti Ahtisaari: Finnish Nobel Peace laureate and former president dies at 86Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on conflict resolution, has died at the age of 86. Ah...
16 Oct, 2023, 01.52 PM IST
Ukraine war: Moldova could be the first domino in a new Russian plan for horizontal escalationEven before the start of the war in Ukraine, there were signs of the countries of Central Asia beginning to assert their individual and col...
18 Mar, 2023, 12.05 PM IST
European Union leaders set to grant Ukraine candidate statusThe EU's 27 nations have been united in backing Ukraine's resistance to Russia's invasion, adopting unprecedented economic sanctions agains...
23 Jun, 2022, 03.32 PM IST
Ukraine EU bid could take 'decades', warns Emmanuel MacronThe idea immediately found favour with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who described it as a "very interesting suggestion" that he was "very...
10 May, 2022, 10.03 AM IST
Former judges, bureaucrats defend Modi govt in an open letterA group of former judges and bureaucrats has issued a rejoinder to another ex-bureaucrats' group, which expressed concerned about "politics...
30 Apr, 2022, 03.04 PM IST
With Ukraine war, Europe's geopolitical map is moving againThe Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine and the humanitarian tragedy it provoked over the past two weeks have raised a Western outcry o...
09 Mar, 2022, 06.55 PM IST
With all eyes on Ukraine, Putin to send his envoy to BalkansSerbia's pro-government media said Monday Nikolai Patrushev, the powerful secretary of the Kremlin's Security Council, is due to arrive in ...
21 Feb, 2022, 07.56 PM IST
Explainer: Why Europe lacks voice, power in Ukraine crisisScarred by losing tens of millions of lives on their soil in two world wars, many European Union nations have been wary ever since about mi...
03 Feb, 2022, 01.01 PM IST
EU mulls its own rapid reaction military force in backdrop of Afghan crisisEU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said Wednesday in a opinion piece for The New York Times that the withdrawal of Western troops and a...
02 Sep, 2021, 11.36 AM IST
Europe’s key strategic forum begins amid major churning in geo-politicsIndia is the only Asian country invited for this edition of BSF where Foreign Minister S Jaishankar will elaborate on India’s Indo-Pacific ...
01 Sep, 2021, 01.57 PM IST
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warns of 'new dangers' from Russia-China ties"Russia and China have been cooperating more and more recently, both at a political and a military level. This is a new dimension and a ser...
09 Jun, 2021, 04.29 PM IST
Vaccine skepticism hurts East European anti-virus effortsIn countries like the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania and Bulgaria, vaccine skeptics have included former presidents and even some ...
17 Jan, 2021, 03.00 PM IST
Why French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to India is importantFrance has valued the independence of our foreign policy. It has not intruded itself into our relations with our neighbours, and ceased arm...
08 Mar, 2018, 11.38 PM IST
Pakistan can't hold together as a state, says Robert D KaplanPakistan may soon see its boundaries being redrawn, says Kaplan, one of world's highly reputed authorities on geopolitics, defence & foreig...
26 Dec, 2012, 08.17 AM IST
- Europe freezes as Russia snaps natural gas supply
Russian natural-gas exports through Ukraine to Europe halted for the first time in three years, threatening to create shortages as freezing...
08 Jan, 2009, 12.00 AM IST