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Sunday, September 21, 2025
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Topic: EUROPE

Ukraine foreign minister’s visit to India opens door for Delhi to shape post-war Europe

Ukraine’s outreach to India is about constructive engagement of a rising power that has bridged the broken links between East and West and North and South on many occasions.

Denmark announces plans to conscript women for military service

Denmark will increase its defence spending by 40.5 billion Danish crowns, equivalent to around USD 5.9 billion, over the next five years.

EU’s real problem isn’t war fatigue. It lacks a grand strategy

Can Europe convert its geoeconomic heft into geopolitical traction? Its sovereign stature today is incomplete without its role as a security actor, an unfinished project for many decades.

Trade talks with EFTA conclude after 17 years, agreement to be signed ‘in next 10 days’

India and 4 member countries of European Free Trade Association have held 13 rounds of negotiations between 2008 & 2013. Negotiations were placed on hold before resuming in October 2016.

Why Trump’s threat to NATO can force Europe to rethink its nuclear defence

The world that emerges from the Second Cold War will have little resemblance to the one we inherited from its first iteration.

Is Europe’s pursuit of security delusional? West must fix its internal maladies first

There has to be a collective pursuit of finding a new equilibrium for the world.

Europe does not take part in US-UK strikes against Houthi group in Yemen

US-UK warplanes, ships and submarines launched dozens of air strikes across Yemen overnight in retaliation for repeated Houthi attacks on the Red Sea.

24-year-old Czech student kills father, then guns down 14 people at Prague university

Day of mourning declared tomorrow to remember victims of country’s worst-ever mass shooting in which 25 people were also wounded. Shooter may have killed himself, according to police.

Sanctions, prolonged war haven’t hurt Russia as much as West hoped, but long-term cost is inevitable

There has been no drastic fallout of sanctions since Russia found customers for its oil in China & India, among other reasons. But Iran is proof that extended sanctions do have an impact.

Europe can’t de-risk from China fully. It’s not the era of cowboy capitalism

There is more work to be done when it comes to India being a direct beneficiary of the EU diversifying its investments from China.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.