Re: India-EU News & Analysis
Posted: 28 Jun 2021 06:45
Unbelievable politicking by euros. Laughably transparent motives. India will almost certainly institute a countervailing requirement for euro vaccines.
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Why today’s German elections are important for IndiaThe centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) were on track for 26.0% of the vote, ahead of 24.5% for Merkel's CDU/CSU conservative bloc, projections for broadcaster ZDF showed, but both groups believed they could lead the next government.
With neither major bloc commanding a majority, and both reluctant to repeat their awkward "grand coalition" of the past four years, the most likely outcome is a three-way alliance led by either the Social Democrats or Merkel's conservatives.
It's not the news. If its news what points to the deep hatred shown towards the Japanese by the Finns? They only love few countries like Estonia and Denmark and almost hate the rest of the world. The commonality that these countries do have with Finland is the Lutheran Church. However developed they look, deep down they are religious fundamentalists. We usually forget to take into consideration the religious undertones of a society. When we see developed countries, we tend to think they are pluralistic democracies. Data shows otherwise.sampat wrote:
Only news about India is bad news in the media and people make perceptions based on that. Rape, Caste, Intolerance, poor, corona dead bodies etc. Good at least, now people are fighting against Hinduphobia conference.
Ukraine has accused Olaf Scholz of sulky and “unstatesmanlike” behaviour after the German chancellor declined to travel to Kyiv because of a diplomatic snub.
Relations between the two countries have deteriorated substantially since the start of the war as Ukraine complains that Germany has dithered on arms shipments and energy sanctions against Russia and Germany feels that the criticism has been overblown and hostile.
And, some reality checkAfter more than eight years of stalled negotiations on a comprehensive EU-India trade agreement, the two are set to formally restart talks from mid-June, with the aim to strike an agreement before both head to the polls in 2024.
Technical negotiations on 18 chapters of a future free trade agreement, one text regarding investment issues, and one concerning geographical indications are set to begin on 17 June in Brussels, India’s commerce ministry said in a statement.
“Both sides hoped to conclude the agreement before 2024. The pact will pave the way for India to give a boost to trade with the 27-member nation EU bloc, subject to ratification by both sides including the European Parliament,” the statement said
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Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, the German government has increasingly shifted its attention toward non-Western democracies, trying to forge alliances to isolate Russia and ensure that the emerging multipolar world order bears a Western signature. However, the push is likely to fail.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reiterated the importance of fostering closer ties with ‘like-minded’ non-Western democracies over and over again.
“It is worth working together on a world order that does justice to the multipolar reality of the 21st century,” he stressed in a speech on Thursday.
In May, Scholz held government consultations with India and travelled to three democratic African states later the same month.
To forge closer ties with these states, Scholz invited India, South Africa, Senegal, Indonesia, and Argentina to participate in a G7 summit later this month.
Scholz stressed that these countries would be democracies, closely connected to the West. However, despite all the flowery words, these countries are far less aligned with the West than Germany might hope.
Even their status as ‘like-minded democracies’ could be called into question.
India, often dubbed the globe’s largest democracy, is a case in point.
While Scholz and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised their shared values, India refused to support the West’s push to condemn the Russian aggression in Ukraine and aggravated the global food crisis through an export ban on wheat. Modi’s regime is also under increased scrutiny over human rights abuses and violent attacks on India’s Muslim population.
In late February, some leading political scientists and lawyers warned that India was even standing on the brink of a genocide. Not exactly the behaviour of a “like-minded state”
Meanwhile, despite Scholz and the EU having continuously praised the close collaboration with the African Union, its chairman Macky Sall, also Senegal’s president, has made a remarkable set of U-turns in his policy towards Russia.
Following a meeting with Vladimir Putin, he called on his “partners” to lift their sanctions against Russia – only days after appearing to form a united front with the EU on the issue of food security.
All these examples highlight that the German vision of a united front of the world’s democracies are unlikely to lead to tangible results.
The world is indeed heading towards a multi-polar global order.
However, the attempts to further integrate these countries into a Western system of international relations and values are destined to fail.
Countries like India or Senegal will continue to balance the interests of different power centres, or even attempt to become one of these centres themselves. They have their own political priorities and often complicated colonial legacies with the European countries that now seek their assistance against Russia. For them, alignment with the West is only one of many options on the table.
Till the Ukraine Russia war is over. We have to do only chai biskoot.A lot will depend on the outcome.chanakyaa wrote:....
Do NOT quote entire posts to put in a one liner.rsingh wrote:Till the Ukraine Russia war is over. We have to do only chai biskoot.A lot will depend on the outcome.
And, some reality checkchanakyaa wrote:EU desperate for new markets as the sanctions and trade disruptions hurting the clowns...
After more than eight years of stalled negotiations on a comprehensive EU-India trade agreement, the two are set to formally restart talks from mid-June, with the aim to strike an agreement before both head to the polls in 2024.
Technical negotiations on 18 chapters of a future free trade agreement, one text regarding investment issues, and one concerning geographical indications are set to begin on 17 June in Brussels, India’s commerce ministry said in a statement.
“Both sides hoped to conclude the agreement before 2024. The pact will pave the way for India to give a boost to trade with the 27-member nation EU bloc, subject to ratification by both sides including the European Parliament,” the statement said...
Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, the German government has increasingly shifted its attention toward non-Western democracies, trying to forge alliances to isolate Russia and ensure that the emerging multipolar world order bears a Western signature. However, the push is likely to fail.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reiterated the importance of fostering closer ties with ‘like-minded’ non-Western democracies over and over again.
While Scholz and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised their shared values, India refused to support the West’s push to condemn the Russian aggression in Ukraine and aggravated the global food crisis through an export ban on wheat. Modi’s regime is also under increased scrutiny over human rights abuses and violent attacks on India’s Muslim population.
The world is indeed heading towards a multi-polar global order.
However, the attempts to further integrate these countries into a Western system of international relations and values are destined to fail.
Well Germany is rearming with Euro 100 billion of arms in the next few years, Germany is going to have Europe largest Army Germany is having high inflation. Germany is going deploy troops in the Baltics for " protection ".rsingh wrote:What if reluctant Germans decides to call it a day and get out of Euro Zone? Inflation has very deep impact on German physique. Inflation is sum of all fears. Just a hint.
France is not too far behind. Here is Macron petitioning Europe to support its own defense industry amid new ‘war economy’.Aditya_V wrote:...
Well Germany is rearming with Euro 100 billion of arms in the next few years, Germany is going to have Europe largest Army Germany is having high inflation. Germany is going deploy troops in the Baltics for " protection ".
“We are going to have to organize ourselves in the long term,” said the President of the Republic when he inaugurated the Eurosatory, near Paris, on Monday.
The formula is shocking. Three and a half months after the start of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the Head of State Emmanuel Macron underlined on Monday the challenges posed to the defense sector, that of " entering a war economy ". “We are going to have to organize ourselves in the long term”, he declared when inaugurating the Eurosatory near Paris, “to go faster, to think differently about the rhythms, the increases in load, the margins to reconstitute more quickly what is essential for our armies, for our allies, for those we want to help, an economy where we can no longer live with the grammar of even a year ago“, he warned. The defense industry must get out of the habit of peacetime to increase its rates. The formula is a warning. The government is also considering, according to Le Monde , a legislative amendment to be able to requisition, in certain circumstances, civilian companies for military purposes.
Yes, the inflation numbers in EU are jaw dropping, at dangerously high level. The annual inflation rate in Germany was confirmed at 7.9% in May of 2022, and accelerating from 7.4% in the previous month. It was the third straight month of record high inflation since German reunification and also marking the highest level since the winter of 1973/1974. We are not quite there with Weimar Republic equivalent, but things could turn ugly this winter.Shanmukh wrote:...
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Looks like they are getting ready to deal with aftermath of Ukraine. 1000s of arms of all sorts. Law and order is going to not as it used to be.Cyrano wrote:Le timing est curieux...
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Perhaps they want to protect Russian orthodox Churches on Eu soil from Russophobe attacks... ?
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Provincial governments were given a year to draw up ways of making the cuts, which are expected to include buying out some farms with livestock that produce large amounts of ammonia.
Farmers argue they are being unfairly targeted and shown little concern for their futures.
Now which country recently allowed 1000s of violent farmers to protest for months by blocking roads and mess up national monuments? But still got lectured on how to behave as a democracy?The Dutch national police chief also weighed in, saying officers have fined dozens of farmers in recent days and prevented more road blockades.