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Ministers and high-level representatives from the 38 OECD member and candidate countries met in Luxembourg in November 2022 to reaffirm their shared commitment to defending and strengthening the democratic values that unite them at the Ministerial Meeting on Public Governance, which focused on "Building Trust and Reinforcing Democracy".

On 23 February 2023, the Minister of Defence François Bausch presented the draft law on the Cyber Defence Cloud (LCDC) to the Committee on Internal Security and Defence of the Chamber of Deputies and to the press.

As part of the reform of the national warning system, the government will continue to implement its national warning system testing strategy on Monday 6. March 2023 by carrying out the monthly test of the siren network and sending an alert SMS to the population in a specific area, as well as a test message on the GouvAlert application.

On 2nd March 2023, the Minister for Family Affairs and Integration, Corinne Cahen, presented a mid-term review of the "I can vote" awareness campaign and the latest figures on the registration rate of non-Luxembourgish residents in the National Register. On this occasion, she was accompanied by Emile Eicher, president of SYVICOL, who represents Luxembourg's 102 municipalities.

On 2 March 2023, Sam Tanson, Minister for Culture, Lydie Polfer, Mayor of the City of Luxembourg, and Serge Wilmes, alderman in charge of Tourism, congratulated the 87 official guides of the City of Luxembourg who had successfully completed the training courses organised by the Ministry of Culture on "Luxembourg: old quarters and fortifications", classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The weekly retrospective gives you a broader overview of respiratory viruses in general: including COVID-19 and influenza.

As part of Luxembourg's humanitarian response to the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, a second shipment of emergency aid was sent to Turkey this morning.

As part of the reform of its subsidy policy and following the workshop dedicated to "Cultural press and culture in the press", which was held on 14 July 2022 at Les Rotondes, the Ministry of Culture has rethought its support for cultural periodicals, the quality and diversity of which will now be promoted through a call for applications.

In response to the need to raise public awareness of sustainable finance, the Ministry of Consumer Protection, the ABBL Foundation for Financial Education, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) and the Association Luxembourgeoise des Fonds d'Investissement (ALFI) have joined forces in an educational effort by launching a national information campaign in early March.

On Saturday 25 February, the 12 members of the second national representation of parents were elected: four for elementary education, six for secondary education and two for the competence centres for special needs education.

The Ministry of State and the Ministry of Family Affairs, Integration and the Greater Region would like to thank the citizens and municipalities for their participation in the survey on the accessibility of elections, which was carried out through the platform "Zesumme Vereinfachen".

One year ago, in the early hours of February 24, 2022, Russia decided to launch an illegal and unjustified war against Ukraine. This unprovoked aggression marked the return to Europe of a large-scale war that our continent had notexperienced since the end of the Second World War.

The Ministry of Finance of Luxembourg is proud to announce its multi-year support to 2X Global, a global non-for profit membership and field building organization dedicated to unlocking gender-smart capital at scale.

The Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Jean Asselborn, made a working visit to the Republic of Armenia on 22 and 23 February.

OECD Skills Strategy Luxembourg is a study carried out by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in collaboration with a national team composed of representatives of the MENEJ, the MTEESS, the MESR and the ADEM.