The United Kingdom has faced tough economic times in the last few years. An unbalanced economy and the banking crisis have led to increased national debt, financial instability and high unemployment rates.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
In Europe, the optimists have had difficulty making their voices heard over those of the pessimists during the past year. It has admittedly been a tough time for everyone, but Finland continues to take a constructive approach to meeting Europe’s challenges. The amazing variety of events and projects seen in Helsinki during its year as 2012 World Design Capital shows Finland’s drive to find solutions to complicated problems.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Openness to trade spurs production, innovation and consumption. Over time, exports have a positive impact on economic growth. These statements can be seen as my points of departure in my daily work as Sweden’s Minister for Trade.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
When British think tank Legatum Institute published their yearly inquiry into global wealth and wellbeing in October, the Nordic countries came out on top. And at the very top of the 2012 Legatum Prosperity Index you will find Norway. The index tells a story of a society that succeeds in combining high productivity and efficiency with a good work-life balance.
Friday, November 2, 2012
Earlier this year, together with the Danish professor, PhD and Psychologist Lene Tanggaard, I came out with a book about both individual and organizational creativity called “In The Shower with Picasso”.
Friday, February 3, 2012
The baby-craving gene seems to have bypassed most female members of my family and has instead been replaced by a dog-craving one.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Who has any respect for December weekends? No, of course nobody does. Any sane person will shiver at the sheer thought of weekends in December.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Internet transparency? I’m both scared and excited about its benefits and dangers. I remember keeping a lock on my personal, well-hidden diary when I was young, so I gasp when I see how young people expose themselves on Facebook. Nowadays it seems to be increasingly difficult to communicate confidentially, even to be in danger of being seen as having something to hide if one tries to do so.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Soon after moving to England, I made myself two promises: one was that I was never to display multicoloured fairy lights in any home of mine; the second was that I was NEVER to have ANYTHING to do with net curtains. I’d look at these strange rags with scorn, pitying the fools who actually believed that they would prevent people from seeing into their homes and disregarding what I felt the curtains said about their homes in the first place.
Friday, February 11, 2011
IS IT JUST ME... Who at this time of year is under a huge amount of pressure from ski-enthusiast friends and family-members? Ski-enthusiasts insist with almost religious ardour, that their “truth” is the same truth for everybody else. You don’t find that kind of insistence from people who figure-skate, play volleyball or occasionally vacation in Brighton.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
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