All of the news

Two days after its adoption by the Government, Minister for Home Affairs, Taina Bofferding, Minister for Housing, Henri Kox, and Minister of Finance, Yuriko Backes, today presented the bill on the land tax, land mobilisation tax and housing tax, as well as the bill on the national register of buildings and dwellings.

During the week of 26 September to 2 October, the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 increased to 2,324 cases, compared to 1,300 cases the previous week.

Two and a half years after the start of the pandemic crisis, the OECD will present a multidimensional assessment of the management of COVID-19 in Luxembourg. The livestreaming starts around 9am.

On 4 October 2022, Minister of Defence, François Bausch, participated in the ninth edition of the Warsaw Security Forum. François Bausch was invited as a speaker at two panel discussions and he had a bilateral meeting with Hanno Pevkur, Minister of Defence of the Republic of Estonia.

Every year on October 1, the international community celebrates the "International Day of Older Persons" with the aim of raising public awareness of the challenges resulting from increased life expectancy, to honour the many contributions seniors make to society.

The Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce and national innovation agency Luxinnovation today signed memorandums of cooperation with JETRO, the Japan External Trade Organisation, aimed at establishing a cooperative framework for facilitating cross-border business and investment opportunities.

The 18th edition of the European Forum of Official Gazettes took place at the Abbey of Neumünster in Luxembourg City on 22-24 September 2022. The event was hosted by the Ministry of State − Central Service for Legislation (SCL), which publishes the Official Journal of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

The verification of the results regarding the number of signatures collected by each municipality gives the following total number:

The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs wishes to inform that the temporary entry restrictions to the territory of the Grand Duchy of third-country nationals residing outside the European Union or the Schengen area, put in place from the start of the health crisis linked to COVID19, will end on 1 October 2022.

During the week of 19 to 25 September, the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 increased to 1,300 cases, compared to 999 cases the previous week.

In the context of the development of projects to allow the ArcelorMittal group’s Luxembourg sites to embark on the path of carbon neutral steel production, the Ministry of the Economy and ArcelorMittal signed a memorandum of understanding on 27 September 2022.

On 26 September, Luxembourg's Minister of Finance Yuriko Backes, Minister of Education, Children and Youth Claude Meisch and EIB President Werner Hoyer inaugurated a new school for migrant children in an EIB building in Kirchberg.

The Ministry of Family, Integration and the Greater Region and the Ministry of Digitalisation announce that the survey on the accessibility of polling stations and election information for people with disabilities is open to the general public as of Monday, 26 September 2022.

The Ministry of the Economy and the University of Luxembourg have signed an agreement that provides a framework for higher education and research activities focused on High-Performance Computing, including the creation by the University of a pilot European Master's degree in High-Performance Computing, Big Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence.

During the week of 12 to 18 September, the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 increased to 999 cases compared to 757 cases the previous week.