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How a Cheesegrater can pay pensions

Paul Brundage Economic attachés learned how one of the most iconic new buildings in the City will eventually pay the pensions of municipal workers halfway…

From coffee shop to global insurer

After a tour of the famous ‘Inside Out’ Lloyd’s building (to see photos please click here) CEO Inga Beale outlined to economic attachés how the…

Consuls need pandemic plan – expert

The world needs to prepare better for pandemic flu, a top global health expert urged at a Consular Corps meeting. Professor Peter Piot, who discovered…

Staying safe over the summer holidays

David Varney Don’t let opportunist criminals cast a shadow over your summer fun. David Varney of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection (PaDP) gives you tips…

UK rallies to aid Nepal quake victims

photo: DEC Ambassadors and VIPs, from Prince William to Joanna Lumley, joined Gurkhas and members of the Nepalese diaspora to offer their condolences at the…

On the Fringes with Elizabeth Stewart

Model princess: The Cambridges with baby Charlotte CC: www .diggi ta.it/v.php?id =1458803 Blissfully above the fray The Royal Family always keeps a studious distance from…

Diplomat of the Year Awards

Envoys from both Russia and Ukraine were recognised this year in the Diplomat of the Year awards. Russian Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko won Best Ambassador (Eurasia)…

A lifeline for children

Hundreds of children die in the perilous journey across the Mediterranean photos: unesco With the desperate plight of refugees crossing the Mediterranean making headlines, CFAB…

Envoys learn of new threat at security seminar

This is an archived article. From 1 April 2015 the Diplomatic Protection Group merged with the Palace of Westminster to form Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection…

Cultural collaborators

On the eve of European Literature Night, EUNIC President Tereza Porybna tells Embassy magazine how this global cultural network promotes European culture in the UK…