Since September, students in France, tenants in Spain and Portugal, demonstrators in Italy, and anti-government protesters in Albania have taken to the streets. Their grievances are broadly underfunded schools, unaffordable housing, stagnant wages, rising fuel costs, and corruption. These do not signify a single European movement. But they reveal a bigger political problem: citizens are …
The mechanism of cooperation between the four Visegrad countries and India, launched on 21 September on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, adds another layer to the ever-closer India-EU partnership. It strengthens India’s relations with each V4 country and helps build a more balanced and multifaceted relationship with Europe. The V4+India …
By Sai Krish Rai and Rohit Pahan De-dollarisation has gained renewed attention, as Russia's experience since 2022 has shown how access to international financial infrastructure can become a geopolitical vulnerability. In March 2022, the European Union excluded seven Russian banks from SWIFT, restricting their access to the financial messaging network used for cross-border transactions. This …
BRICS is a multilateral intergovernmental organisation created to reflect the shared power status of emerging economies, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Since its first summit in the year 2009 at Yekaterinburg, Russia, the organisation, among several other aspects, has pledged to strive towards creating a greater level of coordination among the member …
The 18th BRICS Summit, held on 12–13 September 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, brought together global leaders and representatives of multilateral organisations, providing an important platform for deliberations on a broad spectrum of bilateral, regional, and global issues. As a group consisting of emerging and developing economies that seeks greater cooperation among countries of the Global …
Under the slogan “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability,” India assumes the BRICS presidency in 2026. This is an event that should be closely observed as it will test a reassuring assumption that many observers have about the organisation. It is assumed that BRICS speaks in unison when it comes to economic cooperation, with …
The US dollar remains at the centre of the international financial system despite calls for monetary diversification. It accounted for 57.13% of official foreign-exchange reserves in Q1 2026, compared with 1.99% for the Chinese renminbi (International Monetary Fund [IMF], 2026). Its position is stronger in foreign-exchange markets. The dollar was involved in 89.2% of all …
The story of 9/11 did not end just with the destruction of the World Trade Centre. It transformed the way the international community understood terrorism, national security and counter-terrorism. The attacks brought terrorism to the centre of global politics and triggered the American-led “Global War on Terror,” beginning with Afghanistan and eventually extending to Iraq. …
BRICS, which came together twenty years ago with the aim of serving as the collective voice of rising powers in the global economy, has today emerged not only as an economic cooperation platform but also as an influential geopolitical actor in the reshaping of the international system. The summit to be hosted by India in …
A disaster that announced itself At 8:37 on the morning of 26 August 2026, seismometers worldwide registered what looked like a magnitude-5.2 earthquake north of Langtang Lirung. It was not an earthquake. A slab of ice and rock some 600 metres wide had sheared off a slope above the Lhende Khola and dropped more than …
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