Today the Global Trade and Development Week 7.0 (GTDW) started in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. GTDW had more than 400 participants this year. This is an international conference, this year with the theme: The Global Future Of AEO, Customs & Trade. I was chair and moderator for the event. Key Note Speakers were e.g: …
Today I had a meeting with Dicksons Kateshumbwa and the Director of Dubai Customs Ahmed Mahboob Musabih. It is always a pleasure to meet old Customs friends.
Today the UAE AEO programme formally was launched with the certification of the first eight AEO companies of United Arab Emirates in front of 250 invited national and international guests at a ceremony in Dubai. UAE AEO is not only the first AEO programme of the Gulf region but it is the most advanced …
Tonight the news arrived, CETA will be signed. EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström announced the news and also sent it out on Twitter. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is the free-trade agreement between Canada and the European Union. The agreement eliminates 98% of the tariffs between Canada and the EU. This is …
You are what you eat. And yet most of us have very little idea of what it is we’re putting in our bodies. Take the 2013 scandal that revealed processed beef products in Europe had been contaminated with horsemeat. The discovery sent shockwaves throughout the food industry and left consumer confidence at rock bottom. …
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In the past, if you wanted to get a qualification, or even simply learn something new, you would sign up for a course at a bricks-and-mortar institution, pay any relevant fees, and then physically attend class. That was until the online learning revolution started. I have always been a great beleiver in online education. …
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I woke up this morning with my beloved football club, Malmö FF, being Swedish Champions again. We are champions for the third time in four years and for the nineteenth time in history.
Tonight my football club Malmö FF won the Swedish Championship for the 19th time after winning 3-0 away in Falkenberg. No other Swedish club has won 19 Championships before. We are the champions! Next year we will play Champions Legaue again.
While technology may be changing the world around us, sport will always stay the same, won’t it? The answer to that question is a resounding no, according to a new report which predicts sweeping changes to the way sport is played and consumed around the world. From ‘neurocoaching’ – training player’s brains to deliver …
A new ranking has revealed which nations have the most powerful passports. Passport Index ranks our travel documents by measuring the number of countries that can be visited without applying for a visa. The 2016 ranking puts Germany and Sweden at the top of the passport league. Holders of German and Swedish passports can …
Buoyed by investor interest and hopes that the new government will lift the economy out of recession, the Brazilian real has seen gains of almost 24% against the American dollar in the past year. Other emerging-market currencies have turned in strong performances against the dollar. This Statista chart from 18 October, based on the …
This past summer, the World Bank officially upgraded Cambodia to a “lower‑middle‑income country”, a move that confirms the country’s upwards economic trajectory over the past 20 years. But despite this new status, which Cambodia shares with 51 other economies, including India, Vietnam and the Philippines, the country is still mostly associated with darker images: …
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The best Swedish rock band ever in my book is a group called KENT. It is one if my favourite bands of all times and I loved them from moment I first heard them play twenty years ago. I love their music. KENT is the by far most popular vand in Sweden and Scandinavia …
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been measuring nations’ competitiveness for nearly four decades because it is the best way to assess countries’ future productivity. Productivity, of course, is important as the best way to boost income – after all you can only earn more if you work harder or smarter – and this, …
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This morning I visited my local newspaper in Ystad. The paper, Ystads Allehanda, is the leading newspaper in the region that I am from, Österlen in the region Scania (Skåne) in the South of Sweden. I met with a friemd of line sports journalist Jan Ohlsson. Itbis always a pleasure to talk sports with …
The choice for me is clear. It has always been clear. Reality has to be the basis for all promises. I always keep my promisies. A promise is a contract, you honor contracts – as a person you only have your word. The accountability of a promise is the voice of your charachter.
There are a lot of great TV shows right now. I really like shows, like e.g. Game of Thrones, The Night Of, Vikings, Black Sails, Narcos, Downtown Abbey and my nee favourite show, Peaky Blinders. Peaky Blinders is a BBC television crime drama with Cilian Murphy as the Birmingham gang leader Tommy Shelby. It …
Exclusive: UK hard Brexit pullout risks big fall in GDP and trade gridlock at ports, cabinet committee told. Cabinet ministers have been given detailed warnings that the UK pulling out of the EU customs union could lead to a 4.5% fall in GDP by 2030 and the clogging up of trade through Britain’s ports. …
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Research firm Gartner released its annual report this week on hype in technology, sharing which technologies are up-and-coming, which are at peak hype, and which have moved well into mainstream territory. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that machine learning is riding the highest crest of the “peak of inflated expectations” wave. You …
Today the first of a new generation of AEO programmes was launched at GITEX 2016 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The deputy Ruler of Dubai launches AEO UAE H.E. Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum launched the AEO UAE programme with his hand on an interactive AEO globe. The event was very …
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