It is undoubtedly the party of the year, the night when Luxembourg dances ‘til dawn and wakes up to the sound of canon fire across the capital city.
Ostensibly created to celebrate the official birthday of the reigning monarch, Luxembourg’...
Luxembourg city celebrates Fête de la Musique on the day itself, which neatly serves as a warm-up for the National Day eve festivities the following day.
The programme of acts performing in the capital is truly eclectic and involves plenty of loc...
The rise of Alt-J last year from word-of-mouth student band to Mercury-nominated critics darlings and now arena filling act has been astonishing.
Not that many begrudge the quartet, who first met at Leeds University in 2007, their success. After a...
Fab pop twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin first came to notice with 2004’s beautiful ‘Walking With A Ghost’, later covered by The White Stripes.
Now the duo has cranked up the pop factor with new album Heartthrob, which is a “fully magni...
The National Danish Performance Team is one of the most exhilarating gymnastics teams on the circuit.
The young National Danish Performance Team is put together every two years for a worldwide tour.
It lands in Luxembourg to perform Zoom, a co...
The Ireland Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce hosts a conference on the two approaches to tackling the European economic crisis.
Ireland and Luxembourg are two European countries facing similar challenges--how to remain attractive locations for forei...
Interactive opera
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Wednesday June 19 through Friday June 21
English Touring Opera is returning to the Philharmonie with a new interactive opera for young people with severe learning difficulties.
The opera, entitled Spin, follows the course of an extraordinary day, from breakfast to bedtime, with the event...
Pixar returns to the cinema with this prequel to its 2001 hit.
Monsters Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) meet at university, but the future friends do not get on when they first cross paths.
Pixar rarely comes up with a ...
If Pete Johansson gets as warm a reception as his fellow Canadian Tony Law did at Konrad Comedy Club, then the audience is in for a treat.
Pete Johansson flies in from the UK, where he has been based off and on for the last five years or so. In th...
There are still a few tickets remaining for what the “Telegraph” called “the most exhilarating new piece of contemporary dance to appear in Britain this year”.
The Michael Clark Company performs “all three at once”, a triptych ...
Competition: The EU has given Google “a matter of weeks” to offer a solution that could end its 18 month old antitrust investigation. Joaquín Almunia, vice president of the European Commis...
Sport: A Luxembourg team triumphed in this year’s UEFA-sponsored international football tournament for developmentally disabled athletes, held in Hollerich. Special Olympics Luxembourg and Racing F...
Job Doctor: Each Tuesday Darren Robinson answers questions about career development and finding a new position. Dear Job Doctor,
How can I cope with difficult managers? I mean “difficul...
Aviation: Air carriers in the EU should continue to pay compensation to travelers whose flights are delayed by three or more hours, a preliminary opinion by a jurist at Europe’s top court has said. ...
Finance: Luxembourg and Austria have vetoed proposed changes to EU tax information sharing schemes, to the dismay of Brussels. During this week’s meeting of the council of European finance mini...
Regulation: The proposed “MiFID II” regulations--that would revamp the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive--could force major changes in how mutual funds are sold, attendees at a con...
Regulation: The coming “MiFID II” regulations--that update the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive--will have a wide-ranging impact on both the banking and investment spaces, attende...
Networking: The year-old German-Luxembourg Economic Initiative officially gained its 100th member last week. Peter Kleingarn, president of the Deutsch-Luxemburgische Wirtschaftsinitiative (photo, rig...
Job Doctor: Each Tuesday Darren Robinson answers questions about career development and finding a new position. Dear Job Doctor,
What is the value of sending open applications?
Although there are ...