Yesterday the UEFA EuroCup 2016 in France was official opened at Stade de France in Paris and in front of approximately one billion television viewers all around the world with a supershow before France played Romania. A great day for all football fans in Europe, but also for the Swedish artist Zara Larsson. The …
Yesterday evening my second home country France opened the UEFA EuroCup 2016 tournament by beating Romania 2-1 at Stade de France in Paris. It was a great success for the hosts in difficult forst game against a smartly playing Romania. Today France is happy. The decisive goal was scored by the ‘Man-of-the-Match’, Dimitri Payet …
I am spending another morning at Schiphol in Amsterdam. This is a very normal place to be for an international capacity builder and globetrotter. This is the best transit airport in Europe. By far. Smart design, new simple and fast security, short transit routes, fast immigration controls (and smart controls). On my way home.
This week I visit Beijing, China for business meetings. It is always exiting to visit this amazing country with its mix of history and fast development. I have had the fortune to visit China more than 20 times over the last twenty years and I have many Chinese friends. Tianamen Square I am always …
My colleague and friend, Dr. Mikhail Kashubsky has just released his book about Oil & Gas, under the name “Offshore Oil and Gas Installations Security – An International Perspective”. The book The launch was done in a proper setting during the 23rd Caspian Oil and Gas Exhibition in Baku, Azerbaijan last week. Mikhail at …
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It is great days for us football fans. Copa Americana has started and on Friday 10 June, the 2016 EuroCup in France starts. Sweden is one of the 24 countries in the playoffs. We play in a very difficult group with Belgium, Ireland and Italy. The Swedish team isn’t the best in Europe for …
Today it is our national day, 6th of June. 10 million people celebrates our country. National Day celebrations in our capital, Stockholm We are proud of our country, a trading nation known for peace, equality and solidarity. No other nation in the world contributes more per capita than Sweden to the fight against poverty …
Sweden arranged the 2nd WCO Europe Regional WorkShop on implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement in Stockholm this week. Joakim Reiter, Deputy Secretary General of UNCTAD spoke at the opening of the workshop During two days Trade Facilitation was in the center of the discussion between representatives from forty countries, European Union, WCO, …
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A UAE businessman bought a car registration plate bearing just the number ‘one’ at an auction. The car plste number was sold for AED18m (£3.4m). The winning bidder, Emirati businessman Arif Ahmed al-Zarouni, told Gulf News: “My ambition is always to be number one”, UK Newspaper The Guardian reports. I really like this vision …
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven invites world leaders to a global refugee summit with President Barack Obama in September. “There is a recognition internationally of the Swedish strategy in this field”, says Prime Minister Stefan Löfven in a press release today. Other co-organizers of the Refugee Summit will be the Heads of State from …
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Sweden has regained its position as the most competitive economy in the European Union and is now the fifth most competitive in the world, according to a report by a leading Swiss business school. The 2016 edition of the IMD World Competitiveness rankings shows that only Singapore, the USA, Switzerland and China Hong Kong …
Yesterday I visited the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) for meetings. I also attended a Reception in the beautiful Ministry of Foreign Affairs palace on the occasion of an international meeting held in Stockholm, namely the 2nd WCO Europe Regional Workshop on Implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). The Swedish Ministry …
Sweden is the country in the world that makes the greatest contributions to the world and to mankind, according to the latest ranking ‘The Good Country Index’. “Sweden is outdtanding when it comes to thinking about the rest of the world” says Simon Anholt spokesperson for the index. The Good Country Index is a …
Yesterday I was interviewed for the most popular talkshow in Azerbaijan by a famous and very respected Azeri journalist. The exclusive interview was a held as an one hour conversation about globalization, international trade, Customs, borders and gow to modernize important Government institutions. It was a great pleasure to be able to – in …
I just recived the statistics for the new blog. First month I have had more than 10.000 visitors! This is amazing. The old blog, ‘Nothing is Impossible’ had at most close to 15.000 unique vistors per month. That was in October 2015, after ten years. When taking a 6 months break to re-think my …
Yesterday I visited the 23rd Caspian Oil & Gas Exhibition and Conference in Baku. This is one of the leading commodity events in the world and a large number of countries were represented at the conference and exhibition. His Excellence President Ilham Aliyev opened the event in the Baku Congress Center with an interesting …
This week Sweden hosts an international meeting, the 2nd World Customs Organization (WCO) Europe Regional Workshop on Implementation of the WTO – Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). Joakim Reiter, Deputy Secretary-General UNCTAD, Anna Stellinger DG National Board of Trade, Eva Walder DG Trade MinIstry of Foreigh Affairs, Therese Mattsson DG Swedish Customs and Antonis Kastrissianakis …
Yesterday evening after flying in to Baku from Istanbul – where I had a good meeting during the day – I found some friends in the hotel and we had a dinner to catch-up. With Mikhail Kashubsky & Dilavar Farzaliev I have been many times in Azerbaijan. The Azeri people always offer outstanding world …
Today I gave a speech about ‘The role of Customs in the development of economy at the Baku Higher Oil School. Great participation from professors and students. Also a lot of media coverage. You can find one of the articles below. It was fun talking the students, future engineers in the oil iandustry, the …
Swedish Health & Statistics Profesor Hans Rosling, a world famous scientist working with health care improvement and poverty reduction has just launched a new set of statistics through his system Gapminder, showing his latest theories on global development. Rosling works with with world leaders, multinational institutions and philanthropists like e.g. Bill Gates on major …
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