Premier Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is reportedly going to follow the transparent governance model of Sweden, which has the lowest levels of national debt, low and stable inflation and a relatively healthy banking system among the European Union states, research conducted by the “Jang Group and Geo Television Network” shows. Few vital demographic …
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There is no doubt that football is the biggest sport on planet earth. The amount of people enjoying the sport every week is enormous world over. Footballers are heroes, football clubs – like Manchester United, Real Madrid and Paros Saint-Germain – have more in common with multinational companies than with sport organizatilns. Good or …
Brexit leave voters are less optimistic for a deal, a drop with 25%. According to FT.
The UK Secretary of State for International Trade, Lism Fox, recently launched the UK Export Strategy 2.0. Here is the end conclusion of his speech: “Forging a new role for the United Kingdom on the world stage starts with addressing the export challenge. Since the British people’s decision to leave the European Union, there …
Time is a critical factor and the Irish backstop needs to be resolved. I have grest respect for the sensitivity and complexity of this question having studied the matter due to my academic research for the SmartBorder 2.0 thst I did for the EU Parliament Constitutional Committee. There are solutions, but are there a …
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It us tme for a second biography about one if the best football players ever, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. In November, the football star releases his second autobiography, called “I’m Football”. “The co-author Mats Olsson, who us a frind of line, has spent many long interviews with Zlatan in the past two years,” says Karin Wahlén, …
President Donald Trump said he would pull out of the World Trade Organization if it doesn’t treat the U.S. better, continuing his criticism of a cornerstone of the international trading system. “If they don’t shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” Trump said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg News at the White …
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The World Bank released its Logistics Performance Index (LOI) 2018 report. Earlier versions of this global Logistics benchmark were published in 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016. TheLogistic Performance Index (LPI) 2018 is considered one of the main benchmark studies in the trade and logistics sector. The LPI aims to offer a comparison of …
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The unacceptable is becoming a bit more acceptable, it seems. At a joint press conference with his British counterpart, Dominic Raab, in Brussels on Friday, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier revealed he had asked the U.K. for details about how an internal border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland would work in …
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Is Emmanuel Macron’s post-Brexit vision is too complex to be workable? This question is posed by The Independent in an article today. I think the idea of using Brexit to re-launch the EU is interesting. A debate about the future of EU in the light of Brexit has been missing. Now it can start. …
I have not had many role models and idols in my life but Paul Hewson, a.k.a Bono, is a person I highly admire. I saw U2 live the first time in Paris during a shool study trip 1979, before they were known and a year before their first album Boy. I have followed U2 …
Open Europe’s Pieter Cleppe outlines the arrangements planned by the EU27 to prepare for a possible ‘No Deal’ Brexit scenario. Understandably, a lot of the recent focus in the British media has been on UK preparedness for a ‘No Deal’ Brexit but, just as with a negotiated deal, there are many players determining how …
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I have very few heroes. Paul Hewson is one of them. I grew up with U2. The best band in the world ever. This unplugged version from Cape Cod – of one of my favourite songs, Every Breaking Wave – is a true masterpiece. The feeling. The tone. The lyrics. The voice. The music. …
making a three day whistle-stop tour of sub-Saharan Africa on a mission to strengthen Britain’s post-Brexit trade and investment with a continent that hosts some of the fastest growing economies in the world. The Federation of Small Businesses welcomed the prime minister’s initiative. “Africa is an important market for small firms, and as the continent …
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It’s not an easy time to be involved in international trade, with the world’s two biggest economies – the US and China – trading insults and imposing tariffs on each other. Beijing says it is reporting Washington to the World Trade Organisation. The current tensions were sparked by President Trump’s decision to impose tariffs …
Swedish EU affairs and Trade minister Ann Linde says it is regrettable issue has become ‘a matter of ideology’ in UK. The Irish border challenge in Brexit negotiations has to be solved by Britain, not the EU, the Swedish government has said. The Swedish minister for EU affairs and trade, Ann Linde, said it …
Netflix has closed a five-year exclusive overall deal with international bestselling author Harlan Coben. Under the multi-million pact, Netflix will work with Coben to develop 14 existing titles and future projects, including his upcoming novel Run Away, into English language and foreign language series, as well as films. Coben will serve as an executive producer …
UK is planning to increase its trade relations post-Brexit, Theresa May is on her way to Africa to discuss future trade opportunities. This I think is a wise strategy, since Africa is one of the fastest growing trading areas in the world we have only seen the start of this development. However there are …
Agreement on tariffs and quotas with all WTO members was ‘very unlikely’ by next March. The World Trade Organization has warned about potential disruption for the UK from a no-deal Brexit saying that it is “very unlikely” that the government will have agreed tariffs and quotas with all other member countries by next March. …
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Facial recognition technology caught an impostor trying to enter the U.S. on a fake passport that may have passed at face value with humans, federal officials said Thursday. And the groundbreaking arrest came on just the third day the biometric technology has been used at Washington Dulles International Airport. “You can much more accurately …
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