Lars Karlsson: CapacityNow

The UK Secretary of State for International Trade, Lism Fox, recently launched the UK Export Strategy 2.0.

Here is the end conclusion of his speech:

“Forging a new role for the United Kingdom on the world stage starts with addressing the export challenge.

Since the British people’s decision to leave the European Union, there has been much discussion on the UK’s economic future. Some have expressed doubts about our capacity and willingness to ensure this country remains at the very heart of international trade.

This is a view I fundamentally reject. Brexit is not the occasion to ‘pull up the drawbridge’ – but to embrace the opportunities that the changing pattern of global trade presents.

I truly believe that Brexit is an opportunity. At Chequers, the government agreed its proposal for an economic partnership with the EU after the UK leaves on 29 March next year. It confirmed that the UK will leave the Single Market and the Customs Union and will seize new opportunities from trading with the rest of the world.

But to ensure we are at the forefront of global trade, we must do more. We must raise our ambitions, widen our horizons and expand our timescales. Europe is and will continue to be an important market for our goods and services, but there is a world beyond Europe and a time beyond Brexit.

And as we pursue our first independent trade policy in over 4 decades, we must maximise our global export potential, delivering benefits for business, workers and consumers around the UK. To do this, we must embrace the huge changes underway in global trade patterns, look to the future, and recognise that the time is now to set ourselves on this path to our collective prosperity.

I will repeat again – around 90% of global economic growth in the next 10 to 15 years is expected to be generated outside the European Union. We must adapt to be part of that change. And that is just what this Export Strategy aims to do.

To forge Britain’s future as one of the 21st Century’s great trading nations…

And to build a truly Global Britain”

Link to the entire speech: UK Export Dtrategy 2.0 Speech by Secretary Liam Fox

Time is a critical factor and the Irish backstop needs to be resolved. I have grest respect for the sensitivity and complexity of this question having studied the matter due to my academic research for the SmartBorder 2.0 thst I did for the EU Parliament Constitutional Committee. There are solutions, but are there a solution thst doesn’t demand a comprimise?

BBC has interviewed European MEP Danuta Hübner also member of the European Parliament’s Brexit steering group. She says;

– There has been “practically no movement” on the Irish border issue over the summer. EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier hads offered “some openness” to make the border backstop more acceptable to the UK. However, no solution has yet emerged.

The backstop is the arrangement which will apply if the Irish border cannot be kept as frictionless as it is now in the context of a wider deal.

The EU has proposed a backstop that would mean NI staying in the EU customs union, large parts of the single market and the EU VAT system.

The UK government has rejected it as a threat to the integrity of the UK, and has suggested a backstop that would see the UK as a whole remaining aligned with the EU customs union for a limited time after 2020.

Ms Hübner said the border remains the toughest issue for the Brexit withdrawal agreement.

Any deal between the EU and UK will need to be approved by the European Parliament.

You can read the article here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45400864

Source: BBC

It us tme for a second biography about one if the best football players ever, Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

In November, the football star releases his second autobiography, called “I’m Football”.

“The co-author Mats Olsson, who us a frind of line, has spent many long interviews with Zlatan in the past two years,” says Karin Wahlén, president of the publishing company Bonnier thst is releasing the book.

It us seven years since Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 36, released his first autobiography.

In the book “I’m Zlatan Ibrahimovic” he talked about his csreer, background, the frosty relationship with Pep Guardiola and his tough youth in Rosengård in Malmö.

Now the striker opens up again. According to media the book provides a “unique insight” in the Swedish football career from 1999-2018 and is about everything from his time in Malmö FF to the move to the LA Galaxy in March.

– This is more a football book. It’s not about Zlatan, but about the football player Zlatan, ” says Karin Wahlén.

– This is one of our biggest stars, so we hope for a success for this book as well. It’s a very exciting and great book.

The biography also contains interviews with people who have been significant in the Ibrahim career, such as José Mourinho, Paul Pogba, Henrik Larsson and Mino Raiola.

The book will be released on November 8th.