Articles

Europe Might be more Vulnerable than Most to Omicron

Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

At 8:19 PM, on another day of incessant drizzle in Chennai, I clicked on Bloomberg.com only to see the following headlines captioned boldly on the landing page:

November 30, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Covid , Eurozone , Germany , Omicron , ECB

France & Austria Terror Attacks 2020: The Looming Shadow of Islamic Terrorism over Europe

Anurag Sharma, Research Associate, VIF Article

“We [EU Member States] reiterate that terrorism, radicalisation, recruitment and financing related to terrorism are main common threats to the internal security of the EU”.

The 2015 Riga Joint Statemen....

December 03, 2020 Terrorism , International Relations and Diplomacy , Europe , Article , Islamic State , Radicalisation , Terrorism , Europe , France , Germany , Islamic terrorism , Austria , Charlie Hebdo , Vienna , Nice , Extremism

Monthly Compilation of Views of VIF Expert Groups: August 2020

Aayush Mohanty

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) strives to ensure relevant geo-strategic discussions by different Expert Groups covering global as well as regional issues. In that vein, the groups hosted by VIF not only focused on foreign relations bu....

September 09, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Russia , South Asia , Srilanka , Germany , Task force , Regional Value Chain

EU Budget and Special Economic Package to Fight COVID-19

Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

The EU adopted a Euro 1.074 trillion dollar budget for a seven-year budget cycle from 1921-27 last month. This was combined with a Euro 750 billion package to assist the Member States to recover from the impact of COVID-19 on their economies.¹

August 06, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , India , European Parliament , COVID-19 , R & D , EU Budget , Franco-German cooperation , Germany , Green Budget

Interaction with Dr Thomas Bagger, Head of Policy Planning, German Foreign Office

Dr Thomas Bagger, Head of Policy Planning, German Foreign Office, visited the VIF on February 24, 2016 for an interaction that ranged across a wide and varied geostrategic landscape, inter alia, the future of the European Union, German foreign policy....

February 25, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , NATO , Germany , Thomas Bagger , German Foreign Office

Interaction with H.E. Martin Ney, Germany’s Ambassador to India

On 19 November 2015, H.E. Martin Ney, Germany’s Ambassador to India, held an interaction with members of the VIF faculty on a broad range of issues, including, among others, the shifting strands in the present world order, the challenge of ISIS-bor....

November 26, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , ISIS , Germany , Germany’s Ambassador to India

Seminar on India-Europe Relations

VIF, in collaboration with the Institute for Transnational Studies (ITS), Germany, held a seminar titled ‘Contemporary India-Europe Relations: Prospects and Issues’ on 16 February 2015. Participants to the conference, a mix of diplomatic, securit....

February 24, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , Seminars , Germany , Maritime Silk Road , India-Europe Relations , Af-Pak conundrum

Interaction with Dr. Klaus Lange, Institute of Transnational Studies, Germany

Dr Klaus Lange, Director of the Institute of Transnational Studies, Munich with branches in Italy and Gurgaon, India and Dr Klara Knapp, Deputy Director of ITS interacted with the VIF faculty on 04 April, 2014. Dr Lange shared his perspective on Ukra....

April 11, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Germany , Institute of Transnational Studies , Ukrainian crisis