BREXIT

Initial meeting with the World Customs Organization (WCO)

For an introductory talk the UFE Presiding Board was invited by the World Customs Organization (WCO), which was established in 1952 as the Customs Cooperation Council (CCC) is an independent intergovernmental body whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Customs Administrations.

COVID 19

Facing the rapid spread of the Coronavirus Covid-19 in Europe as in the rest of the world, States have taken strong and unprecedented measures, aiming above all to slow down its development by “social distancing”. Border controls have been re-established, and emergency economic support measures are being developed in order to reduce the destabilization of economic and social life as much as possible. Some European leaders speak about a state of health war. For the World Health Organization, this new kind of virus represents a threat to all of humanity….