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PM visits Europe

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May 30, 2017

Why in news?

Prime Minister is visiting Russia, France, Germany and Spain.

What is the importance?

  • It provides an opportunity to recalibrate India’s approach to European geopolitics.
  • The current uncertainty in the relations between America, China and Russia demands that India move closer to the European middle powers i.e France and Germany.
  • Delhi must also devote more attention to countries like Spain, Sweden, Portugal, Poland etc.

Why it is necessary to engage with Europe?

  • India’s long-standing faith in Russia as the most reliable international partner has been shaken by Moscow’s deepening alliance with Beijing and its political flirtation with Pakistan.
  • With Beijing increasingly constraining India’s regional and global space, the fragility of the Delhi-Moscow bond has become exposed.
  • PM needs to arrest the growing drift in relations with Russia and intensify the engagement with Europe.
  • As Russia turns to China and vacates a key position in India’s strategic matrix, Delhi must begin to explore the European option.
  • After Brexit, UK is in the verge of financial uncertainty.
  • President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies promise great uncertainty in Washington’s engagement with Eurasia.
  • Making matters worse are potential wild oscillations in US policy towards Russia and China.
  • The Europeans fear that Trump might abandon them in favour of a deal with Russia at precisely the moment Moscow is viewed as a threat in European capitals.
  • During his trip to Europe, PM can take the first steps towards the construction of a similar middle power coalition on the western edge of the Eurasian landmass.

 

Source: The Indian Expres

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