On Monday and Wednesday this week we had an evaluation workshop of the AEO Brazil project that has been up and running for 4 years. The workshop was held at Receita Federals building in central Sao Paulo. It was a very valuable exercise and there is no doubt that this project is one of …
It is always a great pleasure to arrive to Brazil, one of my favourite places on Earth. I have worked here for many years, but the last four years I have been in Brazil 6-7 times a year due to the AEO Brazil programme where I have been Senior Advisor supporting the design, development …
What will be the most important tech trends next year? It is that time of the year again and 2017 is over before we knew it. The Year of Intelligence brought us a lot of progress and change; from over-hyped ICO’s to algorithms that created secret languages. As every year since 2012, I provide …
I am spotting this bird again today. Time to go out in the world and try to change it again, for the better. Another business trip, another mission, another continent, another country.
TBY talks to H.E. Ahmed Al-Hakbani, Director General of Saudi Customs, on using greater efficiencies to become a 21st century transport hub, making institutional cultural changes, and going paperless. In the article this visionary leader explains the programmes used to transform Saudi Customs into a global leader, We in KGH are very proud to …
My Mexican amigo Ricardo Treviño elected as new Deputy Secretary General of the World Customs Organization. wcoomd.org/en/media/newsr…
EU leaders agree today to move on to Phase two in the Brexi talks. “Congratulations, Prime Minister Theresa May!” wrote Tusk on Twitter since the 27th remaining EU countries’ heads of state and government have made their expected decision.l at the EU Council meeting in Brussels. “Sufficient progress” in the initial phase 1 negotiations …
I never miss the TV-show ’Nobel Minds’, the round table talk of Nobel Prize winners. The show is lead by BBC Worlds brilliant Zeinab Badawi from the Grünewaldhall at Concerthall Stockholm. Always an excellent hour.
It’s long overdue and it happened at #MC11: A new chapter of business engagement with the WTO opened at the Buenos Aires Business Forum. https://twitter.com/wto/status/941020456521486336/video/1
My colleague and good friend Jonas Lind, has written an excellent and very interesting article about how to unfreeze digital transformation in the public sector. In the article Jonas ask the very relevant questions: “Do you agree with me? What do you think are the top three restraining factors that are slowing down the …
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Today it is December 13, the Day of Saint Lucia. In Sweden – and the Nordic countries – this is a very special day. In all schools, official buildings and offices today there will be a Lucia celebration, the queen of light. The Lucia and her diciples sing specific songs and we eat a …
Arsenal’s round of 32 opponents in the Europa League Östersunds FK have announced themselves to English football fans with some excellent banter on Twitter. The Swedish minnows will be hoping to cause a major upset by putting out the Gunners over two legs, but whatever happens the club has already gained the respect and …
Bitcoin is an implementation of a digital currency, created in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto, whose main purpose is to enable payments over the Internet directly between users without any third party intervention. Bitcoin regulation has rocketed up the news agenda in recent weeks, as its price has surged. Last week, it emerged that the …
Today the mist prestious award in the world, the Nobel Prize for 2017 was awarded in Stockholm. The peace prize was awarded in Oslo as the tradition says. On November 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his third and last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. When it was opened and read after his …
“I feel relieved. On Monday, it looked very critical and it was because Theresa May had not anchored the border issue at DUP. Then it looked like it was very close to bursting, but now we also have an agreedäment on the very complicated Ireland situation”, says Ann Linde Swedish Minister for EU Affairs …
I have been involved in the BREXIT dialogue and with BREXIT advisory work for more than one year already. Still we have just started. Last week I presented my academic report on BREXIT Northern Ireland-Ireland border, ‘SmartBorder 2.0’ to the European Parliment in Brussel. It was the EP Consitutional Committee that had commissioned the …
UK is on course to open trade talks with the EU next week after Jean-Claude Juncker and Theresa May confirmed a divorce deal has been reached, including on the Irish border row. At an upbeat and conciliatory press conference at the EU Commission’s headquarters this morning the pair said that both sides had made …
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For the moment I am almost every week in London for different meetings related to Brexit. There are so much to do when a huge economy like United Kingdom becomes the first nation leaving a fullt integrated Customs Union and the EU Customs territory. There are still politicians and other people that claims that …
Yesterday KGH held our first of may BREXIT Talks for a group of VIP clients in Stockholm. The seminar, ‘Inside BREXIT’ was held at Waterfront in central Stockholm for Swedish multinationals like; AstraZeneca, BillerudKorsnäs, Ericsson, H&M, IKEA, Sandvik, Scania, Volvo and more. We will continue to arrange BREXIT Talks and webinars in 2018 all …
Sweden got Germany, Mexico and South Korea in the FIFA 2018 World Cup in soccer next summer. At the draw today we got the different groups that will play next championship. All teams are good in a World Cup. So there are no easy games. After having beaten France, Netherlands, Portugal and Italy, I …
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