Having read Michel Barniers book and having been involved in the process – it is always interesting to read more about what happened behind closed doors in Brussel during the Brexit negotiations?

Tomorrow there is a possibility to attend the exclusive book launch of Stefaan De Rynck, a close aide of Michel Barnier, to get an interesting insider view.

Speakers include:
· Anita van den Ende, Director-General European Cooperation at Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, The Netherlands
· Tim De Wit, Presenter of Bureau Buitenland at VPRO and forrmer UK Correspondent at NOS-Nieuws
· Matthew Holehouse, British Political Correspondent at The Economist
· Caroline De Gruyter, Europe Correspondent at NRC
· Rem Korteweg, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Strategic Initiatives & Outreach Unit at The Clingendael Institute
· Stefaan De Rynck, Author of “Inside the Deal – How the EU Got Brexit Done” and former Senior Adviser Brexit Negotiations to Michel Barnier.

Check it put here: More information

Delivering the 18th edition of UNCTAD’s Raúl Prebisch Lecture, he called for developing countries to be at the centre of solutions to the crisis.

Colombia’s Minister of Finance and Public Credit, José Antonio Ocampo, has called for urgent policy actions to tackle the economic dimensions of the current cascade of global crises.

Mr. Ocampo delivered on 23 January the 18th edition of the prestigious Raúl Prebisch Lecture, a series organized by UNCTAD and named after the organization’s first secretary-general. Watch the lecture.

”“The current crisis has many dimensions, underscored by the concept of ‘polycrisis’, which has become a fashionable term,”

He underscored the need to strengthen international tax cooperation, improving on the 2021 agreement in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Inclusive Framework in its two dimensions: limiting tax competition and fair taxation of multinational companies.

“To these we should add combating tax evasion,” he said.

Read the entire article here: UNCTAD

Source: UNCTAD

Daily communication work at Maersk HQ, Esplanaden 50, in Copenhagen today.

”Customs has never been more important than now – but it will be more important tomorrow”