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Fuel sales account for 83% of the revenue generated for the state at Luxembourg’s motorway service stations. (Photo: Matic Zorman/Maison Moderne)

Motorway service stations earned the state €64.5 million in 2020

The concession contracts signed with the operators of Luxembourg's seven motorway service areas each bring in annual revenue of around €10 million for the state coffers.

Catherine Kurzawa • 27.07.2021

The revised ICF strategy responds to recent regulatory developments and reflects both Luxembourg’s own climate finance experience as well as good international practice. (c) 2017 petrmalinak/Shutterstock.

Lux allocates €200m to international climate finance

Abigail Okorodus • 26.07.2021

"The state is perfectly entitled to take the sanitary and hygienic measures it wants, but in the private life of people, which is a constitutional right, it has nothing to do", insisted Fernand Kartheiser, president of the parliamentary group of the ADR. (Photo: Romain Gamba/Maison Moderne)

Constitutional reform breaks promise to voters, says ADR

Ioanna Schimizzi • 26.07.2021

"I believe that managing a crisis like covid-19 always requires finding the right balance between individual freedoms on the one hand and the right measures to protect everyone's health, and I think we have managed to strike that balance." Library photo / Maison Moderne

Parliament needs in-house experts, pandemic has shown

Ioanna Schimizzi • 26.07.2021

How are the electronic communications of government members and senior officials protected? A question no one wants to answer, even if transparency is a cornerstone of national strategies on these issues. (Photo: Twitter account of Xavier Bettel)

Communication means used by “senior officials” come under the radar

Thierry Labro • 23.07.2021

From left to right: David Wagner, Myriam Cecchetti, Nathalie Oberweis and Marc Baum presented the parliamentary balance sheet of the Déi Lénk party on Thursday 22 July. (Photo: Romain Gamba/Maison Moderne)

Déi Lénk MPs zero in on poor crises management

Ioanna Schimizzi • 23.07.2021

Sector-specific greenhouse gas reduction targets have been set according to the “reduction potential” of each sector Photo: Shutterstock

Sector-specific objectives of climate law finally defined

Pierre Pailler and Delano.lu • 23.07.2021

The CovidCheck mobile application was launched on 10 June Photo: Matic Zorman / Maison Moderne

CovidCheck app update adds travel features

Jérémy Zabatta • 23.07.2021

Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi was one of the more than 50,000 spyware targets revealed by the Pegasus Project Photo: Mira Marjanovic

Countries like Lux complicit in spyware scandal, says Pegasus target

Cordula Schnuer • 23.07.2021

Campaigners call for legislation over letters

Jess Bauldry • 22.07.2021

Marc Goergen and Sven Clement, MPs of the Pirate Party, presented the parliamentary balance sheet of their group on 21 July at the Place d’Armes hotel. Photo: Romain Gamba / Maison Moderne

“We must reduce taxes for low-income earners”

Ioanna Schimizzi • 22.07.2021

Designed by Luxembourg architect Gust Schopen, the Limpertsberg-based US chief of mission residence was built in 1922 Romain Gamba/Maison Moderne

ARCHITECTURE + REAL ESTATE

Tour the US chief of mission residence

Natalie A. Gerhardstein • 22.07.2021

Nine NSO entities in Luxembourg, minister confirms

Cordula Schnuer • 21.07.2021

Archive photo of a canine unit at the central train station LaLa La Photo

Police intervention in drug crime tripled since 2013

Delano.lu • 21.07.2021

“Climate disasters are piling up and experts are well aware that it’s due not to chance but to climate change,” said Josée Lorsché, president of déi Gréng’s parliamentary bloc, following the historic floods suffered by Luxembourg. Photo: Romain Gamba / Maison Moderne

“It’s a question of implementing projects”

Pierre Pailler • 21.07.2021

Revelations of the misuse of NSO Group technology may not have originated in Luxembourg, but they raise the question of export controls on sensitive technologies, including for European companies Photo: Shutterstock

Pegasus revelations raise questions for Europe

Thierry Labro • 20.07.2021

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