EU helps countries crack down on food firms selling inferior products
European commission gives legal guidance to member states to take action on sale of lower-quality goods in eastern [...]
September 2017
Is it possible to reverse Type 2 diabetes?
Most doctors only address the symptoms, but the disease can be beaten into remission. However, it requires losing a lot of weight – and keeping it [...]
Riff Festival Returns to Rotondes
The annual Riff festival is returning to Luxembourg this November with its seventh edition being held in [...]
Luxembourg Banking Sector Balance Sheet Rises to €770bn with Chinese Bank Growth
PwC Luxembourg has just published the second edition of “Banking in Luxembourg – Trends & Figures 2017”; this study provides an international overview of the Luxembourg banking sector and establishes a comparison between the trends by segment and the market as a whole – in total, six [...]
How Germany’s far right took over Twitter – and tilted the election
A sophisticated and tightly organised troll army has spent the last three months championing a ‘patriotic revolution’. Boosting the AfD’s power is just the [...]
North Korea’s foreign minister: Trump has declared war on our country
Ri Yong-ho says in response to Donald Trump’s comments North Korea has ‘every right to make counter-measures’, including shooting down US [...]
Merkel faces tough coalition talks as nationalists enter German parliament
German chancellor’s centre-right alliance remains largest force in parliament, as far-right Alternative für Deutschland takes 13% of vote in Sunday’s [...]
Crowds Turn Out for LuxTram Open Days
On Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 September 2017, almost 12,000 members of the public attended the LuxTram Open Days event in advance of its scheduled opening on 10 [...]
Unemployment Drops to 6% in August 2017
The unemployment rate in Luxembourg dropped to 6% in August this year, a figure which is 0.4% below that of August [...]
Merkel must strike a deal. Europe’s future depends on it
We obsess about the far right, but who ends up in Germany’s ruling coalition will have huge repercussions for the rest of [...]