I have travelled to the beautiful city of Kiev in Ukraine. Sweden and Ukraine are very close and there has always been good relations between the two countries – being almost neighbors, sharing the yellow/blue colours. I have had the fortune to visit Ukraine many times. Now I am back for some meetings. I …
On Sunday four times European Champions Sweden played Spain in the final of EHf Handball Euro 2018 Championship in Croatia. After defeat in four previous finals, Spain have finally ended their hoodoo as they won the European handball championship with a victory over Sweden in Sunday’s final. A rampant Spain, the oldest team of …
We just finalized two days with Core Experts & Consultants from KGH Global Consulting st our Stratehägic Planning Conference 2018 in Copenhagen. Super Team. Great Days. We build the future!
Ingvar Kamprad, superentrepreneur & founder of IKEA left us yesterday. I met the Man, the Myth, the Legend – two times. Yes. He was extraordinary. IKEA was the pilot for the forst AEO programme in the world, The Stairway. iKEA also became the worlds’ first AEO Company globally with the certificate #1. R.I.P.
U2. The biggest rock’n toll band on the planet. Legendary. The soundtrack of my life. Just before the holidays, in December 2017, the band played an exclusive concert for BBC at the Abbey Road Studio in London. Here is Beautiful Day: Beautiful Day And they played ‘With or Without You’, the most beautiful love …
It is soon time for the Academh Awards again. Since I love film this is a highlight of the year. The 2018 Oscars ceremony will be held at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4. The nominees for the 90th Academy Awards were announced yesterday at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater …
Tonight Sweden, with injuries on our three best goals scorers in the tournament so far, beat favourites Denmark in the semifinal of the EHF EuroCup in handball. Sweden won 35-34 after extra time (5+5 minutes). Sweden lead the entire game and with three goals only 2 minutes remaning – however Denmark made it 28-28 …
Today from 11 am to 5 pm, Manneken-Pis in Brussels will wear his new costume as customs officer. Manneken-Pis, the symbol of Brussels folklore, gets a costume at major events. On 26 January he will celebrate World Customs Day. Manneken Pis is a landmark small bronze sculpture ( 61 cm) in Brussels, depicting a …
I have had two days of very good meetings in London. KGH is expanding and we are setting up a large operstion in Unitef Kingdom right now. We are also involved in the BREXIT development work, both with Government and the Private Sector. I will be in London a lot this year. I like …
Today I have been in Athens for meetings. It is always great to visit Greece. Arrived yesterday. It is some time since I was here last. Havibg said that, good to see old friends and potential new partners – and to dicuss how to save the world. Again.
The Dutch company Port-Liner is building two giant all-electric barges dubbed the ‘Tesla Ships’. The company announced that the vessels will be ready by this autumn and will be inaugurated by sailing the Wilhelmina canal in the Netherlands. The battery-powered barges – pictured above – are capable of carrying 280 containers. The first 6 barges …
The European Commission has published a report on the state of play of implementation of the new EU Customs legislation, the Union Customs Code (UCC) since its entry into force on 1 May 2016. The report also deals with how the Commission has exercised its power to adopt delegated acts supplementing the UCC. The …
Today Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and Minister of Civil Affairs, Ardalan Shekarabi (S), held a press conference at the Customs Office at Lernacken, outside Malmö, where it was told how the government should strength Customs presence in the South of Sweden (Skåne) on the bridge and border to Denmark and in Western Sweden. …
Today I watched the club in my heart, Malmö FF play the first pre-game of the new season against Fremad Amager at our old stadium in Malmö. It is a tradition to watch the first game every year. In Sweden we olay spring-autumn seasons due to the weather conditions up north. It was only …
I am a great fan of U2. The biggest rockband on the planet. I started to listen to U2 already early days 1979-1980. I love the new album, Songs of Experience. One of the best new songs on the album is ‘Get Out of Your Own Way’. It is fantastic. Also the innovative video …
Featuring the Global Competitiveness Index, the Report assesses the competitiveness landscape of 137 economies, providing unique insight into the drivers of their productivity and prosperity. Discover the 2017-2018 edition’s rankings, key findings, your economy’s scorecard, and much more. Sweden is doing well as ranked 7 out of 137 measured countries. The Swedish economy performs best …
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The 2018 EHF European Men’s Handball Championship is the 13th edition and hosted for the second time in Croatia from 12 to 28 January 2018. Four times Champions Sweden has a young new team and we will start the main round with four points, after a mind-blowing 35:31 win against hosts and tournament favourites …
The World Bank’s chief economist said he would recalculate national rankings of business competitiveness going back at least four years. Paul Romer, the World Bank’s chief economist, said World Bank staff put a thumb on the scales of its rankings of countries by business competitiveness, by repeatedly changing the methodology. The World Bank repeatedly …
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The cities with the highest homicide rates are once again nearly all in Latin America. I have visited them all over the years, Cocaine is grown primarily in South America, and trafficked to the world’s biggest market, the United States, via Central America and the Caribbean. The land routes originate mainly in Colombia, and …
A wall is a wall is a wall. CNN says that drug cartels believe President Trump’s Mexico wall will increase their profits and strengthen criminal networks. The tricks of the multibillion drug business include using drones, submarines, ultralight planes and even frozen sharks to transport product across the US-Mexico border. Just consider that in …
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