Why should we be interested in brownfield sites? These are wastelands that have been previously developed and are no longer in use. There are LOTS of ...
Business in Nordic Europe: where do you start?
There are three Scandinavian countries: Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Together with Finland and Iceland, these five are known as “Nordic”. On the Eu...
Location: the Ideal Choice for Digital Businesses and e-Commerce
If your company produces nothing you can drop on your foot, works in the service sector and is expanding internationally, you can probably deliver you...
Digitalizing for carbon neutrality: good news for Sweden’s energy supply
E.ON Sweden is part of the international E.ON energy group that employs 70,000 people in 15 different countries. It has four plants and employs 2,100 ...
Ships & Trade: the call for Smart Ports
90% of the world’s trade is transported by ships. However, they contribute only 2% of global energy-related emissions. So ships sound like an effici...
ESG and its impact on property
There is no dearth of criticism of the EU for its bureaucracy and labyrinthine rules. It is one of the stated reasons that the Brits left it. However,...
Is meat necessary?
Humans have canines, so we must have evolved to eat meat. But so do gorillas, and they are vegetarians. Almost all the amino acids and essential nutri...
Electric Vehicles in France
The French state has always believed in industrial planning. The country’s governing elite knows better than its CEOs what the consumer really needs...
SMEs and Managed Trade
World trade is some 60% of world GDP. Most of it takes place between countries of the developed world: in 2022, 65% of world exports were made by 16 r...
Should you care about Brexit?
Here is a condensed version of a pre-Brexit article from the Economist of a few yeas back: “As island dwellers, it is hard for the British not...