Luxembourg loses ranks in Environmental Performance Index
The grand duchy placed sixth out of 180 countries in the world in the 2022 Environmental Performance Index [...]
Health
Belgian company announces charity event to combat Duchenne disease
The pharmaceutical company Eyetec from Turnhout launches a wine tasting on Friday 26 August in Tielen (Kasterlee). The proceeds will go to Duchenne Heroes, an organization that raises money for research into duchenne muscle [...]
Luxembourg jumps in the total legalisation wagon
The government plans to” establish a national production and sales chain under state control to ensure the quality of the product, ” the minister said. It has been known for some time that Luxembourg is working on the legalization of cannabis. However, initially the cultivation and sale of cannabis for [...]
Home growers to get legal status in Luxembourg
There will be a meeting on the legalization of cannabis in Luxembourg for like-minded countries such as Malta, The Netherlands and Germany. Luxembourg hosts a meeting with like-minded countries in [...]
A limiter weed legalisation is on the way to vote
After first floating the idea to legalise recreational cannabis in 2018, the government on Wednesday presented a draft law that will allow adults to grow up to four cannabis plants at [...]
Restaurants can charge for tap water, says ministry
A government campaign to encourage restaurants to offer tap water to their guests is set to finally see the light of day next spring, but that doesn’t mean that the water will be [...]
Climate change: Better using EU forests as carbon sinks
The EU has launched several initiatives to reduce emissions. As forests play a crucial role in capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that would otherwise contribute to global warming, the EU is working on rules to increase its carbon [...]
EU health policies – the way forward, or somewhere!
EAPM’s publications are based on a series of multistakeholder expert panels that the organization has held over the past six to seven months. As yesterday (21 June) was the summer solstice, at this precise moment the sun appears directly over the Tropic of Cancer — as far north as it appears in the sky all year [...]
COVID-19 Weekly Report: Cases Down 30% Over one Week
Luxembourg’s Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth, together with the National Health Laboratory (Laboratoire National de Santé – LNS) and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), have published a COVID-19 report for the week of 16 to 22 May [...]
EU co-ordinating enhanced COVID-19 response
In the COVID-19 Global Action Meeting, convened by US Secretary of State Blinken and gathering the EU, represented by Commissioner Urpilainen, and other partner countries, participants discussed a ‘Covid Global Action Plan’ on 14 [...]