We used to always see the poverty gap as the big gap in the world. This is still a huge issue, especially for the leadt developed countries (LDCs) and in years with draught and other disasters. However as proven by the Millenium Development Goals Agenda, it is possible today to address the issue of …
Tonight France and Portugal play the final of EuroCup 2016. Who will win? I think that it is very close. The teams have 50/50 opportunity – though France as the host maybe is a small favourite to win the title. It will be CR7 – Christiano Ronaldo vs Antoine Griezmann. It has been an …
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has signed ror Manchester United. Ibra is known for his winning mentality, that is what United new manager Jose Mourinho is looking for. Mourinho and Ibra are old mates. They camped together in Inter Milan, where Ibrahimovic lead a club without tiles for 50 years to 3 league titles in a row. …
More than 160 companies expressed interest to join Australian Trusted Trader programme when it was launched July 1st when the new Australian Trusted Trader (ATT) programme went live and was opened for ‘express of interest’ (applications) from companies. During the first hours of opening more than 160 companies expressed an interest to join the programme. …
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Yesterday France beat World Champions Germany 2-0 in the semifinal. It was the best game of the EuroCup2016 so far. Watching the game at our local sportsbar, BlueBar in beautiful Saont Raphael I had the fortune of watching the game with French friends in Saint Raphael just a few miles away from the impressive …
After nearly a decade of “doing more with less,” government CIOs remain under pressure to further optimize IT and business costs while leading digital innovation in the public sector, according to Gartner. Government CIOs face organizational and cultural challenges that are barriers to harnessing the synergistic potential of social, mobile, data analytics, cloud and …
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Sweden has together with France and Germany launched a new initiative on EU level to shape a better future for EU citizens. On 11 July, the Swedish EU and Trade Minister Ann Linde met France and Germany EU ministers in Berlin to jointly raise the level of ambition of the EU’s work on job …
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The European Commission launched a new public-private partnership on cybersecurity that is expected to trigger €1.8 billion of investment by 2020. The EU cybersecurity investment will be €450 million. This is part of a series of new initiatives to better equip Europe against cyber-attacks and to strengthen the competitiveness of its cybersecurity sector.
British and American institutions once again dominate the list of the world’s most prestigious universities, according to this release from Times Higher Education. The ranking is based on results from an invitation-only opinion survey of 10,000 top scholars around theworld. The United States wins eight spots in the top 10, with the United Kingdom …
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Five years ago today, the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union and South Korea was put into place, helping to turn a trade deficit into a trade surplus. EU exports to South Korea have increased by 55% since the trade deal between the two partners entered into force in 2011, and European …
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Sweden has the best reputation in the world. Accoridng to the world’s largest survey on countries’ reputation. In Reputation Institute’s annual survey of countries’ international reputation, the global reputation index, Sweden claims first place. This means that Sweden is climbing from the third place in the past two years, surpassing last year’s winner of …
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published an article about International Monetary Funds (IMF) predictions on increase of world trade and its positive impact for growth of our societies. There is wide consensus that liberalization of trade and FDI can lead to improved resource allocation across firms and sectors, boosting productivity and output. We …
An hour ago Zlatan Ibrahimovic announced his new club, Manchester United. Ibra will join Jose Mourinhos new team to reclaim the Premier League title. And what a derby it will be towards Pep Guardiolas Man City! This has been a well kept secret. Now it is official. This will be a great season. Ibra …
I have been working with capacity building for a long time. I have also worked in many countries over the years. You learn a lot from meeting people all around the world and from every day facing new challenges, developing new solutions and addressing new problems that needs to be solved. Sometimes I feel …
Sweden is one of the largest donors in the world. UN recommends that all developed countries should grant 0.7% of their GDP in aid to the least developed countries. Sweden is one of the few countries that currently meet the target. Last year Sweden donated 1.21% of our GDP, the higest number in the …
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Yesterday it happened again. Terrorists attacking innocent people. Atatürk International Airport in Istanbul was attacked by three terrorists opening fire with automatic weapons. After firing into the crowd, they blew themselves up with suicide bombs. So far 36 people are dead and more than 150 are injured. The numbers will go up. This is …
BREAKING NEWS! Sweden has for a long time been one of the candidates for the United Nations Security Council 2016. The election was held today in the UN building in New York. It required 128 votes to be elected and Sweden received 134 votes in the first round, well over the two thirds majority …
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There are 330.000 citizens on Iceland and 33.000 football players whereof 15.000 are men playing football. 3000 play adult first team football and 100 of them play professional football. The eleven brave 11 of these players play England in the knock-out round of the EuroCup 2016 tonight. Are they without any chance to win? …
I have a Chilean part of my family and a lot of Chilean friends so I share their joy and hapiness over having become American (South, Central & North America) football Champions for a second time in a row last night, winning Copa America after 4-2 in a penalty shoot-out vs Argentina in the …
I love reading. I always have. I read everything; history, biographies, crime novels, classics. One of my favourite things in the world is to find new authors. To try something new, find out that I love it and then discover that the author has wrotten many more books. It is like striking gold or …
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