Sweden yesterday became European Champions in Handball U18 Men after winning 32-27 in the final against Iceland.
Swedish superstar Ludvig Hallbäck – from my home club Ystads IF – was man-of-the-match with 11 goals and he also became the top scorer of the tournament.
We won a Swedish gold in Croatia. The future of Swedish handball looks fantastic!
We are back on top!
The government is set to publish the first in a series of technical notices designed to prepare the UK for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.
The notices will include advice for businesses, citizens and public bodies.
Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said securing a deal was still “the most likely outcome” – but added making alternative arrangements was the “responsible” thing to do.
The European Union has already prodiced 68 technical notices of its own.
Between late August and the end of September, government departments are expected to publish around 70 technical notices.
Mr Raab – who travels to Brussels this week to continue negotiations with the EU – said the advice was necessary to “mitigate the risks and make sure the UK is ready to make a success of Brexit”.
He added the government wanted to “clearly set out the steps that people, businesses and public services need to take in the unlikely event that we don’t reach an agreement” with the EU.
Downing Street described the advice due on Thursday as “sensible, proportionate, and part of a common sense approach to ensure stability, whatever the outcome of talks”.
The day will also see Mr Raab make a speech in Westminster to outline the government’s plans for the possibility of leaving the EU without a deal in March next year.
Downing Street said it wanted to ensure “consumers and businesses are not harmed” by the possibility of no deal being agreed.
There are not many people that becomes legends in their own time. Someone has said there are maybe 2-3 in every generation.
I think that one of them left us today.
Today we mourn the loss of a great man, a leader, and a visionary – former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan.
Kofi Annan, the first black African to lead the United Nations, has died at age 80. He served as Secretary-General at a time when worries about the Cold War were replaced by threats of global terrorism, and his efforts to combat those threats and secure a more peaceful world brought him the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kofi had a connection to Sweden being married to his Swedish wife Nane.
When He enetered a room you could feel thst he had that energy, integrity and charisma that only great leaders have. I have had the honor to experience that myself.
Jens Stoltenberg, Head of NATO, tweeted that the world had lost one of its giants. “His warmth should never be mistaken for weakness,” he said. “Annan showed that one can be a great humanitarian and a strong leader at the same time.”
Annan, who was born in Ghana in 1938, served as the seventh UN Secretary-General, from 1997 to 2006, and was the first to rise from within the ranks of the United Nations staff.
He had also been a member, since 2007, of The Elders, a humanitarian group of a dozen leaders and activists of worldwide stature formed by Nelson Mandela. In 2013, Annan became its chairman.
The present Secretary-General Antionio Guterres expressed the admirstion and gratefulness for Kofi Annans lifelong service to the organtization.
“In these turbulent and trying times, he never stopped working to give life to the values of the United Nations Charter. His legacy will remain a true inspiration for all of usd”
Kofi Annan was UN. He lived and served his life in the organization and for the people of the world. For us.
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