Phone call PM Chinh of #Vietnam and PM Rutte of the #Netherlands today, discussing #trade & #investment cooperation on:
-logistics and ports
-climate adaptation
-sustainable agriculture
-circular economy.
🇳🇱 is the no.1 #EU investor in 🇻🇳
🇳🇱 is the no.2 🇪🇺trade partner of 🇻🇳
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Uniting the 🌎 to tackle #ClimateChange.
Today, #EU ambassador @GioAlibertiEU and a large group of EU diplomats met with @MOFAVietNam.
The EU stands ready to support Vietnam to reach its targets.
Yesterday in the evening news in #Vietnam:
The #Measlantkering in #Rotterdam, the world’s largest storm surge barrier, built by #Netherlands contractors @BAMGroep_NL & VolkerStevinUK.
Now topical because of #Lionrock storm currently passing over Vietnam.
Today, the #CircularEconomy hub of #Vietnam was launched, with the support of @UNDPVietNam, @gretelochen and @NLinVN @CircularHotspot.
For 🇻🇳 to become ♻️ this important:
✅Include all stakeholders
✅Effective pricing mechanism for #WasteManagement.
✅Effective enforcement
Businesses from the #Netherlands in #Vietnam are most concerned about the lack of predictably of rules and lack of overall perspective in this stage of the #COVID19 pandemic.
Together with @DbavDirector & @EuroChamVietnam we will raise their concerns with the 🇻🇳 government.
Happy #IndependanceDay to my Vietnamese friends!
🇳🇱❤️🇻🇳
#Covid is hitting #Vietnam hard at the moment, but I am convinced that the people of Vietnam have the strength and resilience to beat this invisible enemy.
#vaccination
This would be another candidate: The military called in for grocery shopping, as posted by @miketatarski before.
#Vietnam
#HCMC
#COVID
When you look at this diagram, it shows that countries that were initially successful with a #ZeroCovid approach lag behind with #vaccination. Also rich countries like #Australia, #Japan and #SouthKorea that could have afforded early mass procurement easily.
#SovietUnion vs. #USA
Playing #chess with my 14 year old daughter in #quarantine in #Vietnam with a chess board that I bought 30 years ago in #Berlin, just after the fall of the #BerlinWall.
Guess who’s winning..?
Income #inequality in #Vietnam is decreasing from 0.431 in 2016 to 0.373 in 2020.
Still, it is in the ranks of the #US, #UK and #Turkey. Not exactly what you would expect from a #communist country.
Income Inequality
Costa Rica🇨🇷: 0.497
Chile🇨🇱: 0.460
Mexico🇲🇽: 0.418
Turkey🇹🇷: 0.397
USA🇺🇸: 0.390
UK🇬🇧: 0.366
Korea🇰🇷: 0.345
Japan🇯🇵: 0.334
Spain🇪🇸: 0.330
Portugal🇵🇹: 0.317
Canada🇨🇦: 0.301
Germany🇩🇪: 0.289
Poland🇵🇱: 0.281
Norway🇳🇴: 0.262
Czechia🇨🇿: 0.249
Slovakia🇸🇰: 0.236
@OECD
Great news! And indeed it is beautiful. Just went for a walk there a few weeks ago.
🔴BREAKING!
The Dutch Water Defence Lines [extension of “Defence Line of Amsterdam”, inscribed in 1996], just inscribed on the #WorldHeritage List. Congratulations #Netherlands🇳🇱!
ℹ️ en.unesco.org/whc #44WHC
