Friday, September 28, 2012

France must give asylum seekers allowance

Delano.lu | 28 September 2012
Legal: EU member states are responsible for providing minimum social payments to refugees as long as they remain inside the country, the European Court of Justice has ruled. Read article »

Symbolic

City Magazine | 28 September 2012 
The Grand Duchy’s most famous palace used to be Luxembourg City Hall. Read article »

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Luxembourg, EIB keep top grade

Delano.lu | 26 September 2012
Finance: The Grand Duchy and the EU’s Kirchberg-based economic development bank have retained AAA ratings following a major credit agency’s annual health checkups. Read article »

Friday, September 21, 2012

Chamber blasts EU’s China policy

Delano.lu | 21 September 2012
Trade and investment: The EU must revise its stance on economic ties with China, European business leaders argued this week. Read article »

Thursday, September 20, 2012

E-book price inquiry likely to end in October

Delano.lu | 20 September 2012
Media: Apple and four publishing groups may have reached an anti-trust settlement with the EU’s competition authority over alleged e-book price-fixing. Read article »

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Iceland “failed” foreign Icesave clients

Delano.lu | 19 September 2012
Legal: Iceland’s government breached European law by neglecting to protect British and Dutch depositors after the collapse of Icesave, regulators told a court in Luxembourg on Tuesday. Read article »

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

No wins, but 29 TDs for touch team

Delano.lu | 18 September 2012
Sport: Luxembourg’s national touch rugby squad has returned “tired but proud” from the 17-country European championships in Italy. Read article »

Monday, September 17, 2012

Moody’s keeps EFSF warning

Delano.lu | 17 September 2012
Euro crisis: One of the world’s main credit ratings agencies has kept the euro zone’s rescue fund on its downgrade watch list. Read article »

Friday, September 14, 2012

Chamber: CSR is advantage, not cost

Delano.lu | 14 September 2012
Management: Corporate social responsibility has “shifted from the margins to the mainstream of business practices” and should play a part in all firms’ strategies regardless of size or sector, attendees at a Chamber of Commerce event heard on Thursday. Read article »

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Bailout agency gets OK

Delano.lu | 13 September 2012
Europe: Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has cleared the path for the euro zone’s permanent rescue fund in Luxembourg to begin operations. Read article »

“Do you know how this got here?”

Flydoscope | 13 September 2012
Twenty years ago it innovated a business model did not yet exist, just as the global cargo was seeing another big take-off. Today Atlas Air flies for some of the biggest names in air transport. Read article »

Science 2.0

Flydoscope | 13 September 2012
While Luxembourg’s research and development landscape is relatively young compared with European neighbours, the government is trying to push the country ahead with a revamp of its main players. Read article »

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Luxembourger named court chief

Delano.lu | 12 September 2012
Legal: The Grand Duchy’s judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has been elected the body’s president. Read article »

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Languages help low income kids

Delano.lu | 11 September 2012
Education: Bilingual children from economically disadvantaged homes have a better attention span than their monolingual counterparts, new research at the University of Luxembourg has found. Read article »

Monday, September 10, 2012

Touch heads to Euro tourney

Delano.lu | 10 September 2012
Sport: Luxembourg’s national touch rugby squad heads to Italy for European playoffs this week. Read article »

Friday, September 7, 2012

Mersch hearing blocked

Delano.lu | 7 September 2012
EU: The European Parliament hearing on Yves Mersch’s nomination to the European Central Bank’s executive board has been called off due to the lack of a female alternative. Read article »

No health claims for wine, court says

Delano.lu | 7 September 2012
Legal: The EU’s top court has ruled that European regulations limiting winemakers’ labelling language can stand. Read article »

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Luxembourg behind France, WEF says

Delano.lu | 6 September 2012
Economy: The Grand Duchy is less competitive than all its neighbouring countries, but still places in the top 15 percent worldwide, a major Swiss think-tank has said. Read article »

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Czechs protest closure

Delano.lu | 5 September 2012
EU: The Grand Duchy’s main Czech association has sent an official letter opposing the shuttering of that country’s embassy in Luxembourg. Read article »

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Fitch: more flagship funds

Delano.lu | 4 September 2012
Finance: One of the world’s main credit ratings agencies has critiqued the lack of large-scale cross-border European funds. Read article »

Monday, September 3, 2012

Unemployment, inflation both rise

Delano.lu | 3 September 2012
Economy: Jobless rates and consumer prices both inched up over the summer, according to new figures from the EU’s official statistics agency. Read article »