If you happen to be a duck this could be a good time to take your partner and look around on the streets of Paris.

China is busy sending aid for fighting COVID-19, and doing it with great fanfare, but it turns out a lot of it is defective and has to be returned.

Congratulations to @birgittaohlsson  for her important new assignment with @NDI  in Washington. It’s an important hub for global democracy efforts - and that’s certainly needed these days.

It’s hardly been any snow in Sweden this winter - and then now!

I think i said lock down Chinese style, which is slightly different. But the ducks could have a nice time here in Stockholm as well, apart from the snow we had recently.

The COVD-19 situation on board the US aircraft carrier Theodor Roosevelt, in port in Guam, is described as “quickly deteriorating”. The carrier has a crew of 4.000 sailors.

It took some time, but France, Germany and the United Kingdom have now confirmed that INSTEX has now concluded its first transaction, facilitating the export of medical goods from Europe to Iran. These goods are now in Iran.

This is the first great crisis of the post-American world. The UN Security Council is nowhere to be seen, G20 is in the hands of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and the White House has trumpeted America First and Everyone Alone for years. Only the virus is globalized.

The @EU_Commission  must openly and aggressively name and shame the EU countries that block the single market! A Swedish medical firm finds its deliveries to Italy and Spain blocked by France and has to find expensive and time consuming ways around.

Singapore goes even more aggressive in the fight against COVD-19. Most workplaces to close, schools will move to full home-based learning from next week.