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On 13th December 2019, the Air Navigation Administration ANA hosted AROC, the Airline Representatives and Operators Committee Luxembourg.

In the margins of the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the battle of the Bulge, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, was received at the Ministry of State by Prime Minister, Minister of State, Xavier Bettel.

The Luxembourg Space Agency today announced that Dr. Junichiro Kawaguchi, Senior Fellow at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will be joining the Advisory Board of the SpaceResources.lu initiative.

Luxembourg is firmly determined to put in place the digital innovation policies and assets needed to foster the emergence of a robust data economy and a start-up ecosystem centred on data-driven innovation.

At the UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the European Investment Bank, the EU bank, organised a side-event to discuss challenges and solutions to scale up private finance for climate action.

Launched in 2015 by the Ministry of the Economy, Fit 4 Start is the national reference programme for supporting early stage start-ups.

On 8 December 2019, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Benelux and the Visegrad Group resumed their tradition and met at the joint invitation of Luxembourg's Presidency of the Benelux Union and the Czech Republic's Presidency of the Visegrad Group.

On 5 December, Inspiringluxembourg has become part of Luxembourg.lu, the official portal of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. At the same time, Luxembourg.lu adopts the country's common signature and benefits from new functionalities.

The Department of Media, Telecommunications and Digital Policy has moved on 2 december 2019. The new office is situated at 5, rue Plaetis in Luxembourg-Grund. Phone numbers remain the same.

The government wishes to invite interested people to attend the commemoration, which will take place on Monday 16 December 2019 at 3.30pm at the US military cemetery in Hamm. As the number of places is limited, invitations will be issued in the order of Registration.

The Circularity Dataset Initiative launched in 2018 by the Ministry of the Economy of Luxembourg aims at developing an industry standard at European level that provides a regulated framework for circular data on products throughout the whole value chain, from raw materials to finished products, from the use phase to re-usage and recycling.

On 2 December 2019, the Minister of Finance, Pierre Gramegna, led a delegation of more than 120 representatives of the Luxembourg financial sector to Milan as part of a financial mission organised by Luxembourg For Finance (LFF).

On 27th & 28th of November, Luxembourg's Air Navigation Administration (ANA), in collaboration with DAC (Direction de l'Aviation Civile) and EUROCONTROL, organized a workshop, for data originators to help stakeholders meet aeronautical data requirements.

ANA ensures the provision of the Luxembourgish AIM data destined to be published as part of the Belgium and Luxembourg AIP or NOTAM messages by skeyes.

A Memorandum of Cooperation to further commit to strengthening cooperation in the field of space resources and innovation was signed today by Luxembourg's Deputy Prime Minister, Étienne Schneider, and ESA Director General, Jan Wörner.