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  • Czech TV-Platform CS Link Signs for More ASTRA Capacity
    BETZDORF, Luxembourg (Business Wire) -- SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), has signed an agreement for an additional transponder on its new prime orbital position - 23.5 degrees East - for the Czech Pay-TV platform CS Link. The new
  • EU Deal Deepens Rift in Serbia
    BELGRADE, May 2 (IPS) - Serbia achieved a long proclaimed foreign policy goal earlier this week when it signed a pre-membership pact with the European Union in Luxembourg. But though this was declared a priority when the isolationist rule of Slobodan
  • Annual meeting of the Luxembourg Mathematical Society
    title: date: 06-MAY-08 - 06-MAY-08 venue: Campus Limpertsberg, btiment de recherche B, ground floor, seminar room description: Annual meeting of the Luxembourg Mathematical Society IN ENGLISH (17:00 - 19:00) organiser: University of Luxembourg fee: URL:
  • sigbtJogging in Luxembourg City
    title: date: 02-MAY-08 - 03-MAY-08 venue: Luxembourg City description: Jog'n see on May 2nd & 3rd 2008 SIGHTJOGGING IN LUXEMBOURG: Share your love of running with us as we share our city with you! The Luxembourg City Tourist Office offers guided running
  • Luxembourg FM says Turkish accession linked to Cyprus
    Luxembourg's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean Asselborn believes there are indications that the Cyprus problem can be solved and noted that, even though the UN holds the key to efforts for a solution, the EU can facilitate and encourage the two sides on
  • Luxembourg:Vale signs new long-term contracts with ArcelorMittal
    Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) announces that it has signed new long-term contracts with ArcelorMittal Sourcing S.A. and Companhia Siderrgica de Tubaro (ArcelorMittal Tubaro) to supply iron ore and pellets to its plants in Europe, Africa and Americas.
  • Lithuania blocks EU over Russia deal
    LUXEMBOURG: Lithuania blocked the beginning of talks on a strategic deal between the European Union and Russia yesterday because of ongoing disputes with Moscow, diplomats said.Despite intensive talks between the foreign ministers of the EU's 27 member
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Founded in 963, Luxembourg became a grand duchy in 1815 and an independent state under the Netherlands. It lost more than half of its territory to Belgium in 1839, but gained a larger measure of autonomy. Full independence was attained in 1867. Overrun by Germany in both World Wars, it ended its neutrality in 1948 when it entered into the Benelux Customs Union and when it joined NATO the following year. In 1957, Luxembourg became one of the six founding countries of the European Economic Community (later the European Union) and in 1999 it joined the euro currency area.

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