Luxembourg

27 Voices for Europe – Luxembourg: The Grand Duchy’s European solidarity has its limits

Tiny Luxembourg is a big exception. While this year’s European elections are generally viewed as a fight against the threat posed by rising anti-European populism, in the Grand Duchy the subject of Europe does not unleash any controversies, says Christoph Bumb.

30 April 2019 – Reporter (Luxembourg)

Tax Evasion: ‘LuxLeaks: 35 new files’

After last month’s revelations of “548 fiscal agreements between multinational companies or wealthy families and the authorities of the Grand Duchy”, Le Soir reports that […]

10 December 2014 – VoxEurop Le Soir

Luxembourg Leaks: ‘This man is unfit to lead Europe’

Several years ago, The Economist said Silvio Berlusconi was “unfit to lead Italy”, and later claimed he was also “unfit to lead Europe”. Those cover […]

14 November 2014 – VoxEurop L'Espresso

Luxembourg Leaks: Bad start for Juncker

It’s a “bad start for Juncker’s era”, writes Gazeta Wyborcza, as Luxembourg’s long-time serving prime minister and finance minister Jean-Claude Juncker is facing harsh criticism […]

7 November 2014 – VoxEurop Rzeczpospolita, Gazeta Wyborcza

Luxembourg: Inquiry into ‘the world’s premier corporate tax haven’

Luxembourg uses a system of secret agreements to hide “billions of euros in revenue” of thousands of multinational companies from governments around the world, reveals […]

6 November 2014 – VoxEurop Le Monde, Luxemburger Wort, The Guardian, Gazeta Wyborcza

European Commission: Cherchez les femmes, Mr. Juncker!

”With less women, the European Commission will not obtain the majority required to be invested in next October’s vote”: Luxemburger Wort, believes that Jean-Claude Juncker […]

5 August 2014 – VoxEurop Luxemburger Wort

Tax Evasion: ‘Disloyal: EU criticises Vienna over banking secrecy’

At a meeting of European finance ministers on December 10, Austria and Luxembourg once again blocked an agreement on the automatic exchange of banking data, […]

11 December 2013 – Presseurop Der Standard

Bailout plans: In the heart of the machine

The troika is the best-known tool used by the EU and IMF to aid European countries in dire financial straits. In Luxembourg, though, there are two institutions, discreet but crucial, the EFSF and the MES, that are responsible for coming up with the money.

5 December 2013 – Jornal de Negócios (Lisbon)

Luxembourg: ‘The faces of the Gambia government’

The socialists, the liberals and the Greens adopted on December 3 an agreement on a coalition that will support the government led by liberal Xavier […]

4 December 2013 – Presseurop Luxemburger Wort

Luxembourg: ‘The three want it!’

“For the first time in 30 years, Luxembourg may be governed by a coalition without the Christian socialists,” writes Tageblatt. The socialists (LSAP), the liberals (DP) […]

22 October 2013 – Presseurop Tageblatt

Luxembourg: ‘One winner — three options’

The Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) of former prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker who resigned in July came first in general elections held on October 20, […]

21 October 2013 – Presseurop Luxemburger Wort

Tax Avoidance: EU quizzes multinational tax deals with states

The European Commission is probing tax deals offered by several European countries, including Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, to multinational companies such as Apple and […]

12 September 2013 – Presseurop Financial Times

Luxembourg: ‘Juncker flies to Krecke’s rescue’

Luxembourgian Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker dismissed allegations on September 3 that his former finance minister, Jeannot Krecke, took part in a cigarette trafficking scam that […]

4 September 2013 – Presseurop Le Quotidien

Work: ‘Minimum wages: Belgium at the top’

Eurostat figures published at the end of July, show that the minimum legal wage in Belgium is higher than it is in most European countries, […]

9 August 2013 – Presseurop Le Soir

European Union: Help, Juncker is leaving

Senior European leader Jean-Claude Juncker resigned as prime minister of Luxembourg on July 11. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asks how the EU would be able to function without this figure, who embodies the key elements of European unification.

12 July 2013 – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Frankfurt)

Luxembourg: ‘Ousted’

On July 10, Luxembourgish prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who has been in power for 18 years, was forced to call early general elections, which will […]

11 July 2013 – Presseurop Le Quotidien

Benelux: ‘Parliament demands Fyra inquiry, as Belgians move to investigate manufacturer’

On June 4, a substantial majority of Belgian MPs demanded that a parliamentary committee be established to investigate the technical and commercial boondoggle surrounding the […]

5 June 2013 – Presseurop Trouw

European Council: ‘Goodbye banking secrecy’

Tax evaders will have no chance in the EU. At the May 22 European Council meeting on tax avoidance and evasion, the 27 member states […]

23 May 2013 – Presseurop Luxemburger Wort

European Council: The difficult union against tax evasion

“Tax evasion: who has stashed billions?” wonders the front page of Libération on the occasion of the May 22 summit of European leaders in Brussels, […]

22 May 2013 – Presseurop Libération, Der Standard

Tax fraud: Europe stuck in neutral

"Fight against tax fraud: Europe stalls," headlines Belgian daily Le Soir. In its May 15 edition, the newspaper reports that the Brussels meeting of […]

15 May 2013 – Presseurop Le Soir

Luxembourg: ‘What does the government know?’

According to information gathered by Luxemburger Wort, the Luxembourg government has been aware since 2006 of the possible involvement of a stay-behind network (a secret […]

19 April 2013 – Presseurop Luxemburger Wort

Luxembourg: ‘Eighteen months to respond’

“What will be the response to a situation that only gives foreign bank account holders 18 months to decide on what to do about soon-to-be […]

16 April 2013 – Presseurop Luxemburger Wort

Luxembourg: ‘Banking secrecy at death’s door’

“There is no future for banking secrecy in the EU,” remarks the daily, in the wake of the meeting of EU and Eurozone finance ministers […]

15 April 2013 – Presseurop Luxemburger Wort

Tax havens: Bank deal pressures Austria and Luxembourg

Europe’s five largest economies – Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Spain – have signed a deal to automatically share bank details of account holders […]

10 April 2013 – Presseurop EUobserver.com, ABC

Luxembourg: ‘Frieden pledges more transparency’

In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Luxembourg’s Minister of Finance has announced that he will cooperate with tax authorities in other states. Luc Frieden insisted […]

8 April 2013 – Presseurop Luxemburger Wort

Eurozone crisis: Time to abolish the tax havens

The Cyprus crisis has shone a spotlight on the special tax status of the island in the eurozone. That status, though, is not very different from that of other European countries, like Luxembourg or the Channel Islands: aberrations that should purely and simply be abolished.

28 March 2013 – El País (Madrid)

Article: Today's front pages

“The economic crisis has brought eurozone unemployment to record levels. According to figures published by Eurostat on January 8, there were 18.8 million jobless in […]

9 January 2013 – Presseurop

Article: Today's front pages

The EU's budget for 2014 to 2020 will see a 10% reduction in structural funds allocated to its poorer regions. For Portugal, the cut is […]

31 October 2012 – Presseurop

Article: Today's front pages

Eurogroup president Jean-Claude Juncker met Greek prime Minister Antonis Samaras in Athens and pledged to maintain his support for Greece on condition that the country […]

23 August 2012 – Presseurop

Article: Today's front pages

In an interview with the German WDR public television service, Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg Prime Minister and president of Eurogroup, declared that Greece leaving the […]

8 August 2012 – Presseurop

Article: Today's front pages

The European Central Bank board meets today as Italy and Spain await a decision on an ECB debt purchase plan to relieve pressure on their […]

2 August 2012 – Presseurop

Article: Today's front pages

According to French daily Le Figaro, France and Germany are to propose the appointment of a “Mr. Euro” – a Eurogroup president appointed for five […]

5 July 2012 – Presseurop

Article: Today's front pages

Barack Obama is to put pressure on Germany to ease the pain of austerity with policies to boost growth. He will warn Europe, during two […]

18 May 2012 – Presseurop

Article: Today's front pages

“Bundesbank to water down the euro“, announces the worried tabloid. For the first time, the President of the German central bank, Jens Weidmann, has declared […]

11 May 2012 – Presseurop

Article: Today's front pages

The European press is devoting much space to the European Council in Brussels, each country focusing on the decisions affecting its own national interests. An […]

2 March 2012 – Presseurop

Article: With TINA at the helm

Ever since the debt crisis began to threaten the stability of the single currency, the “Merkozy” duo has taken over the bridge of the good […]

4 November 2011 – Presseurop

Belgium: Dexia nationalised for a high price

“Playing poker with taxpayers money,” headlinesDe Morgen. The Flemish daily announces that on 9 October, the governments of France, Belgium and Luxembourg reached agreement on […]

10 October 2011 – Presseurop De Morgen

Luxembourg: Europe’s troubled El Dorado

It has the highest GDP per capita rate in the world - and the highest per capita external debt - and the lowest rate on the Happy Planet Index. Above all, it does not want that to change. A visit to the debt-ridden capital of European complacency.

23 August 2011 – Foreign Policy (Washington DC)

Luxembourg: Euro-demonstration against austerity

Close to 15,000 demonstrators according to the organisers (7,500 according to police) marched on 21 June in Luxembourg City to protest against "European economic governance" […]

22 June 2011 – Presseurop Luxemburger Wort

Greece: Lying will kill the euro

That’s not the way to save the euro, writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung. With their secretive meeting on the Greek crisis, EU finance ministers have gambled away the last confidence of EU citizens in their governments. This must have consequences.

9 May 2011 – Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich)

Euthanasia: The taste for death

Many Europeans are looking abroad for help to end their lives, while more and more countries are allowing euthanasia. Is the penchant for death winning the battle against the right to life? asks the Polish weekly Wprost.

2 February 2011 – Wprost (Warsaw)

Euro: Easy does it, Nanny Merkel

Angela Merkel tells it like it is. That's the problem. Her plan to push through penalties for overindebted states at the 28 October European Council meeting is a good one, says Die Süddeutsche Zeitung. But it is also guaranteed to put the backs up of many members states, who will see an over-dominant Germany behind her good sense.

27 October 2010 – Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich)

From Luxembourg: Paris, open to ridicule

Stung by Nicolas Sarkozy's remarks suggesting that European Commissioner Viviane Reding allow the Roma to settle in her home country of Luxembourg, the press of […]

16 September 2010 – Presseurop Luxemburger Wort

European Institutions: Brussels has its work cut out

"Heavy-duty return to work for the EU" headlines La Voix du Luxembourg in a round-up report on issues tabled for discussion by Europe’s 27 member […]

1 September 2010 – Presseurop Luxemburger Wort

Drugs: No to ‘shooting galleries’ in France

"Fillon shot up on repression" reads the headline of Libération, following the Prime Minister's opposition to the opening of experimental medically-supervised centres for hard-drug consumption, […]

13 August 2010 – Presseurop Libération