The visit is an opportunity for India to assess of the future of the European project and the challenges in the US-Europe transatlantic relationship.
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Indian ships and naval assets can now move across from the Pacific to Singapore, Andamans, Diego Garcia, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Djibouti, onwards to Oman.
Pro-peace with India voices are being stifled in Pakistan as the security state tries to control a narrative, while 2017 has been a good year for France.
DEPOSED SAUDI PRINCE IS HOME ALONE
The recently deposed crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Nayef, has been barred from leaving the kingdom and confined to his palace.
MACRON WANTS PROTECTION
Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron wants to revive an old French ambition, namely to protect French companies from cross-border takeovers on the grounds of “vital strategic interests”.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
“Reclaiming the mantle of Europe’s leader” — LOL, France was only that in its own ego post-1815, and even any pretence thereof got demolished in 1940 when it succumbed and surrendered to Germany in 30 days (even with British help), the same amount of time that it had taken completely unequipped and shambolically-led Poland to do so when Germans were being helped by Soviets!
“Reclaiming the mantle of Europe’s leader” — LOL, France was only that in its own ego post-1815, and even any pretence thereof got demolished in 1940 when it succumbed and surrendered to Germany in 30 days (even with British help), the same amount of time that it had taken completely unequipped and shambolically-led Poland to do so when Germans were being helped by Soviets!