Today Sweden plays Kazakhstan in the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championship.

The 10 teams are divided into two, five-team groups in the Preliminary Round.

Sweden is leading one of the two groups after having won the games against Finland and Switzerland so far. The fifth team of the group is Slovakia.

In the other group play; Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Russia and United States.

This annual tournament is when we for the first time really can watch the future ice hockey stars in action.

Boris Johnson is to take personal charge of the negotiations over the UK’s future relationship with the EU, as he prepares to rebrand his Brexit unit “Taskforce Europe”.

After the planned closure of the Department for Exiting the European Union at the end of January, David Frost, Mr Johnson’s Europe adviser, will lead the team responsible for implementing the Withdrawal Agreement and conducting negotiations for a free-trade agreement.

The name given to the unit, which Mr Johnson will oversee, mirrors the EU’s rebranding of its Brexit negotiations team.

Michel Barnier’s Taskforce 50 has become “The Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom”, as the two sides prepare to thrash out a trade deal once the UK’s divorce agreement is passed by Parliament.

The Prime Minister used his huge majority to drive the Withdrawal Agreement Bill through its first Commons stage before Christmas, ahead of the planned exit date of Jan 31.

You can read the entire article here: Boris Johnson takes lead on EU talks as Brexit unit gets rebranded

Source: TheTelegraph

Today we probably had this years’ last barbecue in our garden.

It was definitely the first barbecue this season with below zero temperature celsius outside.