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Luxembourg prime minister admitted to hospital with Covid

Luxembourg’s prime minister, Xavier Bettel, has been admitted to hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 last week, local media have reported, citing a statement from his office. Multiple outlets said…

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Luxembourg PM Bettel tests positive for coronavirus

POLITICO reports that Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel has tested positive for the coronavirus and gone into self-isolation. "News of the positive diagnosis, announced by his office on Sunday, came…

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Cargolux joins UNICEF Humanitarian Airfreight Initiative

Luxembourg's Cargolux announced that it will be part of UNICEF’s Humanitarian Airfreight Initiative to transport essential medical and pharmaceutical supplies where they are most needed. The project aims to prioritize…

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Luxembourg refutes tax haven claims

The Luxembourg government has strongly rebutted recent articles published in the international press concerning alleged shortcomings in the Grand Duchy's anti-money laundering arrangements. The principality insisted is fully in line…

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Italy, Vatican City and San Marino removed from U.K. safe travel list

Italy, Vatican City state & San Marino are the latest destinations to have been removed from the UK's travel corridors. This also means that any Brits returning after 4am on…

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Luxembourg warns EU over “fixing” cross-border fund rules

European Union regulators should avoid trying to fix problems that don't exist in operating cross-border investment funds, Luxembourg's financial regulator said on Monday. The EU's securities watchdog ESMA has suggested…

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Luxembourg raises €1.5 bln in Europe’s first ‘sustainability’ government bond

Luxembourg became the first European government to sell a 'sustainability' bond on Monday, which raised 1.5 billion euros ($1.77 billion), according to a lead manager memo seen by Reuters. The 12-year bond…

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Ireland, Luxembourg need more muscle to police tech giants, EU report says

Ireland and Luxembourg, European headquarters to Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon, need a substantial boost in resources to deal with data breaches by U.S. tech giants, a European Union report said. The report by the European Commission,…

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Luxembourg Airport offering free COVID-19 testing

Luxembourg Airport is offering free COVID-19 testing to all arrivals. The pilot project is aimed at testing passengers on flights landing at Luxembourg airport and is being undertaken as part…

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Luxembourg to distribute mask to all the population

A member of the civil protection carries a box of medical face masks at a facility set up for the distribution of protective masks to citizens, in Mersch, Luxembourg, 08…

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Luxembourg to test its entire population for coronavirus

Luxembourg plans to test its entire population for coronavirus, the education minister, Claude Meisch, announced. The small European country, which borders France, Germany and Belgium, has an estimated population of…

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UN agencies welcome first relocation of unaccompanied children from Greece

IOM, the International Organization for Migration, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund today welcomed the relocation of 12 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children from Greece to Luxembourg. The…

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Luxembourg declares state of emergency

Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel announced that the country is triggering Article 32.4 to declare a state of emergency. The state of emergency, which can last for up to three…

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Luxembourg becomes first country to provide free public transport to all

Luxembourg has become the first country in the world to provide public transport for free. The small EU hub aims to boost tram, train and bus usage and rid itself…

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Luxembourg to roll out experiment into zero-fare public transport

Luxembourg next year will become the world's only country to get rid of fares on all its forms of public transport. In this, the country with Europe's highest average income,…

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Luxembourg PM insists he did not want to humiliate Johnson

In a BBC exclusive, Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said it was never his intention to humiliate Boris Johnson on Monday by holding a press conference without him. Bettel strongly…

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Luxembourg has the most cars per inhabitant in the EU

According to research by the European statistics office, Eurostat, Luxembourg has the most cars per inhabitant in the European Union. Among the EU Member States with the highest ’motorisation…

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Europe Votes: Luxembourg, the projections

This is a summary of Politico’s and FT projections of the voting today in Luxembourg: Luxembourg – The Projections If turnout of 85.55% is maintained in this vote, Politico predicts…

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Multi-million euro cryptocurrency laundering service Bestmixer.io taken down

The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), in close cooperation with Europol and the authorities in Luxembourg, clamped down on one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency mixing service…

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Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg dies aged 98

Luxembourg's Grand Duke Jean has died at the age of 98. He was born on Jan. 5, 1921 to Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma. He had…

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