We kicked off our day with a meeting at the Commission on Human Rights. The Commission is the city’s agency to enforce the NYC Human Rights Law – the city’s own civil rights law, and one of the most comprehensive in the United States.… Read More »Human rights in NYC and the EU representation to the UN! Thursday 29th
We started off quite early on Tuesday morning. Our first appointment was at the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce where we met Anna Throne-Holst. You might know her from “Sommar i P1” this summer where she hosted and talked about her earlier career. She’s been… Read More »Swedish presence in New York, meeting with BAR-association and the special representative from the World Bank to the UN! Tuesday 27th
We started our day at the Swedish mission to the UN. It is situated in 1 Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, which happened to be in the building right across the street from our hostel. We were warmly welcomed by Inga-Lena Bengtsson, who had been working… Read More »The Swedish mission and a tour of the UN headquarters! Monday 26th
Saturday morning lots of us went for bagels, my personal favourite was an everything bagel with scallion cream cheese. After a week in New York you learn how to order, in the beginning you spend your time looking at what everybody else is eating… Read More »The first meeting of the trip & NY Jets vs. New England Patriots! Saturday 24th – Sunday 25th of November
After an amazing thanksgiving, with amazing food and company we woke up on Friday in Colette’s parents’ house, in Long Island. We got breakfast served again from her wonderful… Read More »First impressions of New York! Friday 23rd of November
On a crisp fall morning in Merrick—the cozy Long Island suburb that committee member, Colette Heefner, calls home—I, like many other travel committee members, woke up in an inexplicably excited daze. After a whirlwind day of trudging over-packed luggage across the globe, we finally… Read More »Thanksgiving: UPF Travel committee gives thanks! Thursday 22nd of November
“Where has the Sun gone?” It remains a question that has baffled not only exchange students but Swedes alike every single year. But that question has never been asked in the city that never sleeps with the hussle and bussle of the bright lights… Read More »The Swedish invasion of the stock exchange! Wednesday 28th
We started the day in the office of Soraya Post at the EU-parliament. There we met some of the staff who help shape her political agenda. Post is the first Roma person elected to a high political position in Sweden and the only representative F!… Read More »April 6th, 2018, in Brussels
To start the fourth day of the Brussels trip, we had got in touch with a conversation with Mr. Andrew Murray from EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture). EUNIC was founded in 2006 in order to help the member states build stronger partnerships and… Read More »April 5th, 2018, In Brussels
On the early morning we headed towards the EU commission for Competition. It was a meeting with the section dealing with laws about competition on the market. Due to a large security process at the entrance the meeting had to be held quite short. We… Read More »April 4th, 2018, in Brussels