January 2018

26th January 2018

Julian Assange asks UK court to drop arrest warrant

WikiLeaks founder hopes ruling in his favour would allow him to leave Ecuadorian embassy The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has asked a UK court to drop the arrest warrant that prevents him from leaving the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been living for five and a half [...]

26th January 2018

Luxembourg bottom of EU renewable energy table

Among EU member states, Grand Duchy furthest from Europe 2020 target, occupying last position in 2016 [...]

25th January 2018

Justin Trudeau tells Davos: tackle inequality or risk failure

Canadian prime minister says employing more women is the smart thing to do. Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has challenged leaders of the world’s biggest corporations to hire more women and to tackle sexual harassment as he warned that a business-as-usual approach to tackling inequality would lead to [...]

25th January 2018

Cisco, Luxembourg strike deal to ‘speed up’ digital economy

Memorandum of understanding signed at World Economic Forum in Davos Luxembourg has struck an agreement with US multinational technology company Cisco Systems to boost the Grand Duchy’s digital [...]

24th January 2018

Brussels could pay EU nationals’ application fees to stay in UK

Juncker said to sympathise with proposal to cover expected £72 cost to seek ‘settled [...]

24th January 2018

Europe ‘needed Brexit and Trump’, – Viviane Reding

Member of European Parliament looks back over past year, attacks Luxembourg’s ruling [...]

23rd January 2018

Luxembourg and Senegal sign 4th Indicative Cooperation Programme

During the official visit of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Luxembourg to the Republic of Senegal, representatives of the two countries signed the fourth Indicative Cooperation Programme (ICP [...]

23rd January 2018

Number of jobseekers in Luxembourg falls by 4.6%

The number of registered jobseekers in Luxembourg has decreased by 4.6% over one year. As of 31 December 2017, the number of available jobseekers registered with the ADEM was 17,283. Over one year, this represents a decrease of 839 people or 4.6%. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate calculated by STATEC thus [...]

23rd January 2018

60% of Foreign Investment Funds distributed in Japan are domiciled in Luxembourg

Pierre Gramegna Discusses Brexit, eCommerce Taxation, Green Finance with Japanese. As part of his mission to Japan from Wednesday to Friday last week, Pierre Gramegna, Luxembourg’s Minister of Finance, met his counterpart Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of [...]

22nd January 2018

PM Bettel Emphasises Need to Repect Integrity of Internal Market with Michel Barnier

Luxembourg’s Prime Minister and Minister of State Xavier Bettel welcomed Michel Barnier, chief negotiator in charge of the European Commission’s working group responsible for the preparation and conduct of negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 of the Treaty on European [...]

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