Lars Karlsson: CapacityNow

For the moment I am almost every week in London for different meetings related to Brexit.

There are so much to do when a huge economy like United Kingdom becomes the first nation leaving a fullt integrated Customs Union and the EU Customs territory.

There are still politicians and other people that claims that UK can have almost the same situation as before, with open borders and free movement of goods. That this is a matter of negotiations. This is naturally not true. You can’t be inside and outside a Customs Union and its Customs territory at the same time. When you leave, you leave.

And when you leave a Customs territory there will be Customs and Border formalities for various reasons.

Now we have a Brexit deal saying there will be no hard border and this is good. It is also possible.

For those who wonder how? I have three words for you; Read My Report!

Yesterday KGH held our first of may BREXIT Talks for a group of VIP clients in Stockholm.

The seminar, ‘Inside BREXIT’ was held at Waterfront in central Stockholm for Swedish multinationals like; AstraZeneca, BillerudKorsnäs, Ericsson, H&M, IKEA, Sandvik, Scania, Volvo and more.

We will continue to arrange BREXIT Talks and webinars in 2018 all over Europe.

I have worked with BREXIT related matters for more thanbyear and I have done Advisory work to both UK and EU Institutions.

Last week I presented my academic BREXIT research report on a potential border solution to the European Parliament Constitutional Committee.

In addition, we in KGH have experts on the ground in UK working full time on BREXIT.

At the BREXIT Talk Seminar we had speakers from Swedish Government, Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, National Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce but also UK BREXIT experts, including my good friend Dr. Andrew Grainger, Trade Facilitation Expert from University of Nottingham.

We had a very intersting interactive panel discussion about how compakies can start to plan and prepare already today for BREXIT. We will publish the outcome on the KGH website,

At the BREXIT Talk we also launched the KGH BREXIT Package with BREXIT Analysis and other services. Please check out our website for more information shortly,

Everybody at the seminar agreed on one thing, it is time to plan and prepare now.

Sweden got Germany, Mexico and South Korea in the FIFA 2018 World Cup in soccer next summer.

At the draw today we got the different groups that will play next championship.

All teams are good in a World Cup. So there are no easy games. After having beaten France, Netherlands, Portugal and Italy, I do think that Sweden has a good chance to go thorugh to the knock-out rounds.

It will be a great tournament next year.