7th March 2014
Warsaw, Poland
The chequered flag in sight and Lord Livingston and team in pole position on GREAT opportunities in high growth CEE Moving up a gear and onto the home straight of the GREAT CEE Megamission 2014 – there’s three things which come out of this whistle stop tour of this exciting region: – The region as […]
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5th March 2014
Warsaw, Poland
The Lord is really setting a hot pace on this 5 day CEE sprint. A GREAT Reception, GREAT Dinner, GREAT Photoshoot in Krakow’s main square and following a few hours’ sleep the Megamission is up at the crack of dawn and onto the Czech Republic. Destination Brno. Following a quick breakfast the Minister is off […]
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20th April 2011
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I made two visits recently to the State of Gujarat in Western India, both of which underline the enormous potential for UK companies in India, and the scale of developments here. At the end of March a team from our trade and investment operation in Mumbai travelled to Surat, the second largest city in Gujarat, […]
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19th April 2011
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Yesterday afternoon I participated as Patron in the 2011 BBC Entertainment and English Speaking Union (ESU) Public Speaking Awards in Hungary. Along with the Ministry of National Resources and Magyar Telekom, the event was also supported by the British Council, Oxford University Press and the Robert Burns International Foundation. It’s the first time the BBC […]
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