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Apps like Robinhood make stock trading quick, cheap, and alluring
Transaction tax

Gaming our economies

Slowing or staunching trades through a transaction tax will actually make things worse, argues Todd G. Buchholz
4 min. 28.02.2021
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The evolution of the financial industry

How did the financial industry evolve during your 30 years in banking?
Taking the time to think about the surroundings you want
Garden Path

Plotting, planning and inspiring a dream garden

26.02.2021
US President Joe Biden
Stimulus

House passes Biden aid with $1,400 checks

27.02.2021
Listen to woodpeckers, watch butterflies and spot new buds Photo: Laurent Jacquemart
Stay fit

Walking routes

28.02.2021
Appointments should be made online once you receive your invitation letter containing a code, much like the large-scale testing system
Coronavirus

Getting vaccinated

26.02.2021
Private security agents have been operating in the Gare district of Luxembourg City since December last year
Security

Residents back private security agents in Gare

26.02.2021
Demonstration for more tax transparency in Berlin
tax

Luxembourg grudgingly takes next tax transparency step

26.02.2021
The Kirchberg business district in Luxembourg City
News round-up

Five stories you may have missed

27.02.2021
Spice up your usual menu with a visit to a speciality food store
Menu

World food speciality stores

27.02.2021
Luxembourg
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at the university hospital in Halle/Saale in eastern Germany
pandemic

Luxembourg to use AstraZeneca vaccine quicker as cases rise

Luxembourg to follow other countries' example to vaccinate more quickly as weekly numbers on the up
3 min. 25.02.2021
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#13 - with John Ryan

In the 13th episode of our health Podcast we talked to John Ryan, the Director Public Health at the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG Santé). We asked him about European coordination work in the pandemic, DG Santé’s role in it and how it is involved in the vaccination against COVID-19.
A shop in Luxembourg City warns customers of Covid restrictions Photo: Chris Karaba
Coronavirus

Police hands out more fines for Covid rule breakers

23.02.2021
Kate Oglesby (right) interviewing Douwe Miedema
website

New LuxTimes website for more user options

1 23.02.2021
Luxembourg Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna in February Photo: Anouk Antony
Brexit

Gramegna warns against a 'fortress Europe' in finance

23.02.2021
Former Economy Ministery Jeannot Krecke (C) and the principals behind now-bankrupt Biocardel sign an agreement in 2007 to establish a biodiesel plant. PHOTO: Guy Jallay
industrial land

Luxembourg sees little progress recouping biodiesel plant investment

22.02.2021
Business & Finance
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
Taxing tech

US removes stumbling block to global deal on digital tax

Biden administration drops insistence on ‘safe harbour’ for companies, opening door to agreement
3 min. 27.02.2021
International Monetary Fund

G-20 moves toward consensus on IMF reserve firepower boost

Proposal would increase funds to help poorer nations respond to the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic
2 min. 26.02.2021
The Chairman of the Board of Hôpitaux Robert Schuman, Jean-Louis Schiltz, at the press conference on Thursday
Privilege

Hospital in row over early vaccinations for governing board

26.02.2021
EY admitted that its reputation had been hit by the fraud uncovered at Wirecard, which collapsed into insolvency last year
Finance

EY overhauls German partnership in effort to repair Wirecard damage

26.02.2021
A passenger arrives for an American Airlines flight at O'Hare International Airport in February in Chicago, Illinois
pandemic

EU told to back vaccine passports or Google may do it anyway

26.02.2021
Joe Biden ordered the strikes after US facilities in Iraq in recent weeks, according to the Pentagon
foreign affairs

Biden orders retaliatory strikes on pro-Iran militias in Syria

26.02.2021
European Union
Paolo Gentiloni, the EU’s economic affairs commissioner, says the bloc's fiscal policy needs to be adapted
Economic recovery

EU’s economy chief calls for new fiscal rules to aid recovery

Measures should be adapted to help boost countries struggling with recessions caused by pandemic, says Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni
2 min. 26.02.2021
European Court of Justice

Parental leave available to workers hired long after child's birth, court rules

EU's highest court rules in case of woman refused leave in Luxembourg who was unemployed when her children were born
by John MONAGHAN 25.02.2021
Kirchberg, Luxembourg
economy

Europe takes slow lane to recovery as stimulus outpaced by US

25.02.2021
Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, has said the EU's policy would be resisted
Brexit

Bank of England chief slams EU’s stance on swaps clearing

24.02.2021
Paul Van Houtte, former EIB employee and his lawyers Esther Theyskens and Walter Van Steenbrugge
justice

EIB loses suicide-related case against former employee

24.02.2021
The European Commission has unveiled an updated adaptation strategy for dealing with the effects of climate change
Climate change

Europe seeks stronger protection for economy from climate risks

24.02.2021
World
World Bank in Washington D.C.
Liqudiity

Developing nations at risk for debt crisis, World Bank head says

At a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 biggest economies on Friday
25.02.2021
failure

Metal fatigue seen as trigger of engine failure

23.02.2021
A freezer farm for Covid-19 vaccines at the Pfizer Kalamazoo Manufacturing Site in Portage, Michigan Photo: AFP
Vaccine

Pfizer expands production, adds suppliers for Covid-19 doses

20.02.2021
World Trade Organisation Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Photo: AFP
Pandemic

WTO chief calls on nations to end Covid export restrictions

17.02.2021
Culture
exhibition

A taste of 17th century Florentine art

How Europe’s richest bankers flaunted their wealth 400 years ago
by YASEMIN ELÇI 2 min. 18.12.2020
Diane Jodes, Apple Dreams Photo: Yasemin Elçi
print makers

Contemporary prints on show in newly opened gallery

11.12.2020
Vanessa Springora, the author of "Le Consentement". Photo: JF Paga
book review

Two separate Vanessas tell a similar tale

04.12.2020
The Egyptian Theatre in Park City, Utah, which takes part in the Sundance Film Festival, where Kajillionaire premiered this year. Photo: Shutterstock.
film review

Family of grifters deals with emotions in earnest comedy

13.11.2020
LT Expat Hub
Appointments should be made online once you receive your invitation letter containing a code, much like the large-scale testing system
Coronavirus

Getting vaccinated

The invitation phases, registering and vaccination centres – a guide to Luxembourg’s Covid-19 vaccination programme
by Sarita RAO 5 min. 26.02.2021
Spice up your usual menu with a visit to a speciality food store
Menu

World food speciality stores

27.02.2021
Taking the time to think about the surroundings you want
Garden Path

Plotting, planning and inspiring a dream garden

26.02.2021
Listen to woodpeckers, watch butterflies and spot new buds Photo: Laurent Jacquemart
Stay fit

Walking routes

28.02.2021