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27th March 2013 Warsaw, Poland
Business is GREAT – Poland’s Energy Opportunity
Off to Krakow today to team up with PMR, one of Emerging Europe’s leading business publication companies for an Energy is GREAT webinar. A virtual video conference where we get to present Poland’s €30 billion energy modernisation programme direct to UK companies across the UK. Where’s the opportunity then. Let’s take a pragmatic view: As […]
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27th March 2013 Vientiane, Laos
Home Sweet Home
We officially held our first day of work in the new British Embassy building on Monday! After months of preparing for this occasion, everyone was very happy to move into the new building with nearly all of the staff in place just days before the official opening of the Embassy on 2 April. After a […]
26th March 2013
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Reforma proceselor de migraţie
Prim Ministrul britanic David Cameron a prezentat ieri viziunea Guvernului britanic asupra reformei procesului de migrație. Aş dori să subliniez câteva idei principale: În primul rând, Prim Ministrul a reconfirmat faptul că restricțiile de muncă aplicate lucrătorilor români şi bulgari vor fi ridicate la sfârșitul anului 2013: “Începând cu 1 ianuarie 2014 românii și bulgarii […]
26th March 2013
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Managing Migration
The Prime Minister David Cameron has set out his thinking in a speech yesterday on how best to manage migration in the UK. I’d like to underline several points from his speech. Firstly, David Cameron reaffirmed that transitional controls on Romanian and Bulgarian workers will be lifted in 2014. He said “from the beginning of […]
26th March 2013 London, UK
FCO travel services check-in to GOV.UK | GDS
Sara Bowley outlines our new travel services on GOV.UK: “This morning we fully welcomed the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on to GOV.UK…
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26th March 2013
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British Consulate helps with safe blood for Turkey
What is red, liquid and knows no nationality? The answer of course is blood – something none of us can live without. For many years the Turkish Red Crescent has been running a social responsibility project to encourage people to donate blood. It is called the “Safe Blood Supply Programme”. I was delighted this year […]
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25th March 2013 San Francisco, USA
Energy Storage Technology in the UK and California
It’s something we depend on every day – when we power up our phones and laptops, use a domestic hot water tank, or turn on a flashlight – but energy storage technology also has a role to play at a much larger scale. As I found out recently, the ability to store energy in the […]
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25th March 2013 Geneva, Switzerland
Habemus Resolutiones
The session is over, the resolutions are all adopted and UN blue smoke has finally risen through the holes in the Council ceiling. After weeks of lock down without food, daylight or other things that make us happy, the Council delegates can start to think about a return to normality. But for those afflicted by […]
25th March 2013 London, UK
Completing the moving to GOV.UK
Our consular services and worldwide pages are now on GOV.UK, the last major part of our move to the single government website. This has been a substantial exercise, involving around 250 sites and tens of thousands of pages of content. It has involved close work over six months between the Government Digital Service and FCO, […]
25th March 2013 New Delhi, India
Giant leap forward for Indo-UK Industrial R&D
A whirlwind 3 day trip to the UK resulted in an exciting development – a UK India Programme of Co-operation (POC) on joint industrial research has been signed (see our earlier press release). This is an agreement between India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the UK’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to support innovative […]
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