“Time is running out! We’re expecting a stormy autumn: industrial and trade companies, as well as the asset management industry, must now seek to make the necessary arrangements with their financial services providers. It is important to Brexit-proof their financing and investments. That does not work at the touch of a button. We’re heading …
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Albanian outfits have pushed out rivals by slashing the price of the drug. Albanian gangsters have taken control of the UK’s cocaine market by imitating the “Amazon model” of using efficiency gains to offer high-quality products at the lowest possible price. Tony Saggers, former head of drugs at the National Crime Agency (NCA), said …
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So a number of our managers met to discuss digitalization under the theme ‘Mission Possible’. We have for a number of years been working with the digitalizion of Customs and Trade. Vidar Gundersen, our visionary global sales and marketing manager and business guru Our business is in a great change, the biggest change ever. …
Carol-Ann O’Keefe, Assistant Principal Officer at Revenue Commissioners (Irish Customs), told business leaders in Ireland that it is inevitable that Brexit will generate additional costs, administration, and delays at Irish ports but much is being done by Irish authorities to minimise these. Irish goods exporters and importers are being advised to expect delays at …
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Sky News writes that PM May during her speech yesterday used a surprise statement in Downing Street to issue an ultimatum to the bloc to accept her Chequers plan or come up with counterproposals. She declared the UK will continue preparations for a “no-deal” Brexit, amid what she recognised as an “impasse” over “two …
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Maybe it is finally time to say goodbye to airport queues. If so it is not a day too lte. Lastvyear more than 4 billion prople travelled by airplane. This text is written by Rob Leslie for WEF. ‘Sitting around the dinner table recently at a family gathering my sister, who lives in Paris, …
Let me start by thanking the beautiful city of Salzburg, the Austrian EU Presidency. -//- It is a truly impressive; the hospitality, the logistics, and it is not an empty compliment. It is one of the best political performances I ever experienced. -//- At our EU27 working lunch today we had a good discussion …
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Donald Tusk yesterday said that Theresa May’s Chequers proposals for dealing with the Irish border and future trade relations after Brexit will need to be “reworked and further negotiated” in a sign of how far the UK and EU are from resolving the most fraught issues in the divorce talks. Opening the EU summit …
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Speaking today about SmartBorders and Brexit at the Getlink/Eurotunnel Freight Industry Forum at Millibank Tower in London. It was a truly great event hosted by Jo Willacy and John Keefe from Eurotunnel. I also participated with Karen Wheeler, Director General of the UK Government Border Coordination for Brexit, in a very open, transperent and …
Here below tou find EUs Cheif Brexit negotiator Michel Barniers comments in a Press Statement issued yesterday. Ladies and gentlemen, Our proposal for the backstop on Ireland and Northern Ireland has been on the table since February. It is an insurance policy to avoid a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, whatever the …
The European Union has presented their reform paper on how the World Trade Organization (WTO) can be modernize to meet the challenges of the future. The European Commission yesterday presented a first set of ideas on how to modernise the WTO and to make international trade rules fit for the challenges of the global …
It is moving. Maybe. EU reported to be working on a proposal for an alternative bsck-stop solution on Ireland. This is a qoute from FT: ”….British inspectors could also be able to carry out “limited checks” on goods heading to Northern Ireland in UK ports to ensure they met single market rules. It also …
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This year 2018, the European Union AEO concept will be 10 years old. On Friday 14 September in Brussels, Belgian Customs organized a national event to celebrate AEO 10 years ju inviting Belgian AEO companies to a seminar. Almost 300 companies attended the event. I was deighted to get an invitation to deliver a …
Swedish international Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored many increadible goals over the years. Last night he scored his professional goal number 500 for LA Galaxy. And what a goal it was. In match minut 43, with a three-goal undercounter, Zlatan did a magic move and scored his five hundred goals in his career. After a …
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The last months the number of readers of this blog, ‘CapacityNow’ continues to grow. There are now more than 16.000 people monthly that are interested in information about Customs, borders, trade, reform & modernization, capacity building, travel, music, sport and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
A new report from the European Research Group (ERG) a Tory Brexiteers group today published a report outlining a solution for the 310 mile border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit, including extra customs declarations and declarations of origin as well as sanitary, phytosanitary and product compliance procedures. Among the …
Most of Dutch companies dealing with the United Kingdom is still insufficiently prepared for Brexit. Many German companies are either doing enough to meet the challenges of Brexit. Preprations and contingency planning is vital at this stage. Preparations needs to start now, today. Export to the United Kingdom are at risk when UK leaves …
‘Realistic’, is the key word. BBC reports that the EU’s chief negotiator said if both sides are “realistic” there could be an agreement on the terms of the UK’s exit by early November. His comments come amid unconfirmed reports a one-off summit of EU leaders could be convened in the middle of November to …
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In some ways there is nothing new about buying second-hand furniture – antique stores have done it for centuries. And yet the idea that a leading modern furniture shop – IKEA in Sydney, to be precise – will re-sell old furniture seems radical. This demonstrates how much work still needs to be done in …
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EU Brexit Chief negotiator; ”Let me be clear – we are not asking for any border between Northern Ireland and any other part of the UK. We must de-dramatise the backstop.” Mr. Barnier said the EU plan was a matter of “technical controls on goods, no more, no less”. See the arricle here: Barnier: …
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