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Following last week's announcement of the selection in the Generation Kplus section of Enzo D'Alò's A Greyhound of a Girl, a co-production with Paul Thiltges Distributions, Luxembourg cinema will be represented at this year's Berlinale (16-26 February) with three films in the Official Selection.

On 20 January 2023, the Government Council approved the preliminary draft of the Grand Ducal Regulation on the nomenclature of medical acts and services covered by health insurance in order to implement the programme of preventive medicine and universal access to contraception at national level.

The number of available resident jobseekers registered with the ADEM amounts to 15,760 on 31 December 2022, a decrease of 643 persons (or -3.9%) compared to December 2021.

In 2022, a total of 10,499 persons obtained Luxemburgish nationality by naturalisation, option and reclamation procedures.

On 18 and 19 January 2023, the Minister of Defence, François Bausch, made a working visit to Cabo Verde.

As part of the "Les Rendez-Vous de l'UNESCO" cycle, the Luxembourg Commission for UNESCO is launching a new series of multidisciplinary events in 2023 on the theme of global citizenship.

On 19 January 2023, the Ministry for Digitalisation invited government officials to its first "Simplify Day", a day entirely dedicated to administrative simplification, at the European Convention Center Luxembourg. This first edition focused on "Administrative simplification: initiatives, tools and better regulation".

For the eighth time, the Prime Minister, Minister of State, Xavier Bettel, attended the World Economic Forum (#WEF23) in Davos, Switzerland. During his trip, the Prime Minister was accompanied by the Minister of Finance, Yuriko Backes and H.R.H. the Hereditary Grand Duke.

On 16th and 17th January Minister of Finance Yuriko Backes participated in the Eurogroup and the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) in Brussels.

With the start of Autofestival 2023, the Ministry of Consumer Protection would like to remind of the importance of some legal principles concerning the protection of consumer rights.

As of January 12th 2023, the Ministry for Consumer Protection has designated the Centre Européen des consommateurs GIE as the organism to host the European Consumer Center Luxembourg.

The public campaign conducted by Luxembourg Stratégie, the strategic foresight department of the Ministry of the Economy, as part of the development of possible future scenarios and the design of a strategic vision for the Luxembourg economy up to 2050, ended on Monday 16 January 2023 with a second citizen debate with Franz Fayot, Minister of the Economy.

Le ministère de la Digitalisation lance un appel à projets pour le financement de projets favorisant l'inclusion numérique au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg pour l'année 2023. L'appel s'inscrit dans la stratégie de mise en œuvre du Plan d'action national d'inclusion numérique.

The rating agency Fitch has just confirmed this Friday, after the markets closed, the "AAA" credit rating of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg with stable outlook. This improved rating reflects the Grand Duchy's good governance indicators, strong public finances and the country's economic resilience despite the current uncertain economic environment.

The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development, Joëlle Welfring, the Water Management Agency (AGE), the syndicate of Luxembourg's cities and municipalities (Syvicol) and the Luxembourg Association of Water utilities (Aluseau) invited to their press conference "Virstellung vum neien Drénkwaassergesetz" today.