The final countdown begins! With Dominica and Mongolia ratifying the Trade Facilitation Agreement, we now have a total of 100 ratifications. Only 10 more left to realize a global deal that could slash trade costs and delays. Read more at: http://bit.ly/2g18ow3
English is the world’s most widely spoken language but is unusual in the fact that the vast majority of speakers are not ‘native’. In my country Sweden, most people speaks English since we start already in first grade of elementary school at the age of 6 to learn it. So this is another list …
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Enough of movies about detectives, spies and lawyers – and finally a movie about the real heroes of business life, accountants. Today our business process are based on systems and the monitoring relies on system based controls. Also in Customs through systems like AEO and Trusted Traders. It will be even more so in …
Open markets are essential for a sustained global recovery and equity for years to come. Cristine Lagarde, Jim Yong Kim and Roberto Azevedo has written an article in Wall Street Journal about trade. Many of the world’s economic leaders gathering this week in Washington for the International Monetary Fund/World Bank annual meetings may face …
From the ‘Bosnian Luis Suárez’ to Milan’s wonderkid Gianluigi Donnarumma, English Newspaper The Guardian identifies in its annual review some of the best young players born in 1999. There are two Swedish players on the list, Joel Asoro and Alexander Isak. Both are great talents and the future of Swedish fotball. The Guardian: Future …
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This week I am in Sao Paulo Brazil for meetings with the Federal Revenue Agency (Receita Federal), Agriculture and Health Agencies. I am also speaking at the first AEO Consultative Forum and opening a new AEO Validation Training we are conducting this week here. Pim Berkhuizen and Hans Visser are in charge of the …
There is only one. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has already made an impression in English Premiere League. Ibra is in his first season for Manchester United at the top of the Premiere League top scorers list having scored four goals in the first four games out of the seven goals that Inited has scored so far. …
This week I have been back in Dubai for meetings. In the past there was a sating that all roads lead to Rome. Well today they will take you to Dubai in the United Arab Emurates (UAE). For goods and travellers Dubai and United Arab Emirates has become the center, the leading global hub …
15 years ago. It was the 11th September 2001. I was National Director and Head of ICT/Development of Swedish Customs. I was in my office of Swedish Customs HQ in a meeting, when my PA came in and said that I should rurn on the TV. I did and saw the second airplane crash …
I have had the same boss since 1978 – the one and only boss, Broce Springsteen. The Boss. The Amarican magazine has in his latest edition a fantastic article by David Kamp about Bruce Springsteen. The text is brilliant. Even better are the astonishing photos by superstar photographer Annie Leibovitz. Leibovitz is an American …
My favourite Professor, Hans Rosling, is an amazing person and charachter. I have met him and he is great . Hans Rosling is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker. He is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet (The home of the Nobel Committee in Medecine and the highest ranked institute …
Yesterday evening Sweden played Netherlands at home in the opening game of the FIFAWorld Cup Qualifyer. The game ended 1-1 after Sweden scoring in the first half, a great goal by striker Marcus Berg and Wesley Sneijder equalizing in the middle of second half. Netherlands was the better team and had the ball possession …
Tonight we will play Netherlands in the FIFA 2018 Soccer World Cup Qualifyer group stage. It is the first game in the new campaign. Sweden is in a very difficult group with recent European Silver medalists France and the last World Cup bronze winners Netherlands. We have a new young national team, since four …
When Prime Minister Stefan Löfven received US Vice President Joe Biden on 25 August, their meeting focused on global challenges. Special attention was given to the refugee situation and how to create sustainable conditions for peace and prosperity around the world. ”The relations between our countries are stronger than ever. We will continue to …
We have spent a few days st the very top of Denmark – in beautiful Skagen. This is a very special place that I highly recommend. Skagen has a beatiful scenary, small streets full of shops, great restaurants and wonderful museums. We also went to Grenen where two oceabs, Skagerack and Kategatt, meet. A …
Like a better wine becomes our only superstar nicer the older he gets. Zlatan has had a dream start in his new club Manchester United. What people might not know is that he has the best avarage score of all players in global football. Statistics also show that Zlatan score more than one goal …
There are very few places in the world I love more than Circular Quay in Sydney, Australia. I fell on love with place already when I saw ot the first time 1988. I can sit there forever and just study the view and people passing by. Great place. There is the Sydney Harbour Bridge. …
New discoveries, intelligent devices and irrepressible dreamers are once again making space exciting. It may turn out to be a bare and barren rock. The fact that liquid water could be flowing across the surface of the planet just discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun, does not mean that any …
We live in the age of information technology and communication. Still we have only scratched the surface of the potential in ICT and broadband based Internet communication. As Randy Bachman and BTO once said: You ain’t seen nothing yet. Numbers rule our world. 0 and 1. The power of digital communication is impossible to …
There is a saying in Sweden about Swedish international soccer superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic – now playing for Manchester United – he is everywhere, all the time. Well, it really is true. Soccer is popular also in Australia. Manchester United is the number one club, so…..also in Australia, Ibrahimovic ia everywhere. In newspapers, media, on …
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