Best of BS Opinion: India's Ukraine 'challenge', no online targeting & more

Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day

The first edit looks at the ‘Ukraine’ challenge, and says China’s domestic problems may give India a potential breather and the time to revamp both economic strategy as well as foreign policy. The second edit says the new EU digital law should become the global benchmark because it gives surfers the most comprehensive protections.

Both public choice theory and experience tell us that agencies are relatively easy to create but very difficult to reform, says K P Krishnan. The finance minister and her ministry need to continue to engage with statutory regulatory authorities. Read here

Rajesh Kumar looks at the economics of electoral promises. Competing promises of sops in elections, he says, are undesirable and can have severe unintended consequences. Read here

QUOTE OF THE DAY

In recent years, we have experienced the emergence of trends and practices that dispute the well-established principle of civic nationalism and interpose a new and imaginary practice of cultural nationalism...

 

Former vice-president Hamid Ansari