Ministers are stepping up co-operation with business to train up to 50,000 people who will be needed to fill in customs forms for post-Brexit trade with the EU through the creation of a special academy. Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove revealed plans for the “customs agent academy”, as UK companies prepare for a more …
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EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan, is clear: Opentrade will drive recovery. After the Covid-19/Corona virus ceises. Hogan writes, that no country has been able to secure supply on its own: For example, the production and distribution of ventilators and Covid testing kits relies on highly integrated supply chains. A standard ventilator can contain as …
The joint UK and EU committee focused on how to implement the Northern Ireland part of the Brexit deal held its first meeting on Thursday last week. The specialised committee is made up of government officials rather than politicians. The UK delegation included senior Stormont official, Andrew McCormick. The Brexit deal, which was agreed …
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I welcome & congratulate my friend Philip Kermode to his new position of acting Director-General of EU Commission DG TAXUD. We look forward to working with you. Great appointment. Philip is one of the best there is. Philip replaces another friend of mine, Stephen Quest, Click here; Customs Director becomes Acting Director General
The yellow fields of Southern Sweden. My homeland. I live in Scania. I grew up on in a small coastal town called Simrishamn in the South East side of Southern Sweden, named Österlen. Now we live in the South East outside Malmö, on the Swedish side of Öresund – the sea between Denmark (Copenhagen) …
It gets harder from here. Getting modernization efforts right and avoiding project failures requires that the people at the top of an organization feel comfortable with technology. As two of the architects of the United States Digital Service, an office of the White House staffed by some of the top talent from the technology …
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Today it is International Workers’ Day, a.k.a Workers’ Day or Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day. It is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement which occurs every year on May Day (1 May). I always do my own …
Whatever you do – don’t miss World FZO 6th AICE 2020 Online Event (Free Registration). I am speaking, and many more experts, about one of the most dynamic areas of global trade right now and a key to trade recovery post-Covid-19 crises. The World Free Zones Organization sixth Annual International Conference (AICE), the year’s …
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf turns 74 today. Traditionally, a day when the king is celebrated with a general flag day and salute from Skeppsholmen in Stockholm close to the Royal Palace. Carl Gustaf has been the Swedish king since 1973. Together with large sections of the royal family, King Carl Gustaf receive the …
British and EU officials in the new Joint Committee meet today to discuss post-Brexit arrangements for NI under the NI protocol. The negotitaions will be about post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland. The specialised committee on the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol, which will hold its first meeting virtually due to coronavirus restrictions, will …
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The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise has published an open recovery plan for Europe after Covid-19. As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, Europe’s economy and politics will inevitably undergo major changes; this is in spite of all the efforts of governments and EU Member States. Unfortunately, even a gradual easing of the current …
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I published the last weekend the news about an academic paper I have written together with my friend Dr. Alan Bersin, on a new repsonse towards transnational organized crime, Lines, Flows and Transnational Crime: Toward a Revised Approach to Countering the Underworld of Globalization Roberto Saviano has written an imoortant and excellent article in …
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’Brexit, if used properly, can speed Britain’s post-Corona recovery. The way we buy and sell things will change’ wrote Wolfgang Münchau in The Spectator last weekend. An important article with an interesting argument. Here is the introduction of the article: Will the recovery be shaped like a V or a U, some other letter …
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Politico writes that UK Minister Michael Gove, been Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancasterhä, earlier today stated that: ”It is ‘entirely possible’ to conclude Brexit talks by December”. According to Politco Michael Gove also said: ”The coronavirus pandemic will “concentrate the minds” of the EU’s Brexit negotiators and help secure a trade deal by …
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Four weeks working from home now. The Covid-19 / Corona virus is making us work from home. I work from our spare room upstairs where our youngest daughter Malin, used to live. I have a good feeling in this room since she ledt some things (that we have kept in the room) when she …
The UK is at the point of “maximum risk” in its battle with coronavirus, Boris Johnson has warned, as he returned to Downing Street to lead the government’s response to the outbreak amid calls to increase testing numbers and begin lifting the lockdown. The prime minister resumed his full-time duties three weeks after he …
Holed-up at home on a Wednesday afternoon two weeks ago, I found it comforting to track my teenage daughter’s plane from London to Geneva – one of the few flights operating – with FlightRadar24. It seems obvious and natural that the airline industry has real-time tracking of every aircraft. A global network of passenger …
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We live in a new time, a time of globalization. We will soon see the a new updated edition of globalization, post the Covid-19/Corona virus crises – Globalization; The World 2.0. One of the things that have changed the most over the last years is the international supply chaon and integration of global value …
South China Morning Post writes about the Covid-19 / Corona virus impact on the belt and riad plans. But also that trade with B&R partner countries might not be as badly affected as with countries elsewhere in the world. In fact China’s trade with belt and road countries rose by 3.2 per cent in …
We have a wonderful magnolia tree in our garden. It was the first tree planted in the garden when the house was built. Out house was the first built on Millners Street in the late seventies. We have lived here since the year 2000.