Current role
- Minister of Defence
- Minister for Mobility and Public Works
- Minister for Gender Equality and Diversity
Biography
Yuriko Backes was born on 22 December 1970 in Kobe, Japan.
After graduating with an International Baccalaureate from the Canadian Academy International School in Kobe in 1989, Yuriko Backes obtained a bachelor's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1992. She then attended the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where she successfully completed a master's degree in Japanese studies in 1993. Yuriko Backes obtained a second master's degree in European political and administrative studies from the College of Europe in Bruges in 1994.
Latest news
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Working visit by Yuriko Backes to Lithuania
Yuriko Backes, Minister for Equality and Diversity (MEGA), paid a working visit to Lithuania on 30 September 2024.The working visit began with a bilateral meeting with Justina Jakštienė, Deputy Minister of Social Security and Labour and responsible for gender equality...
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Commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Luxembourg City
After more than four years of Nazi occupation, most of Luxembourg was liberated by the Allied forces on 10 September 1944. Despite a last desperate German offensive from December 1944 to January 1945, which briefly brought various parts of the country back under the Nazi yoke, the capital remained free.
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Luc Frieden and Xavier Bettel attend the "NATO Summit 2024" in Washington
The Prime Minister, Luc Frieden, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Xavier Bettel, took part in the NATO Summit 2024, held in Washington from 9 to 11 July 2024, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Alliance.