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Today, the City Climate Finance Gap Fund ("The Gap Fund”) was launched jointly by ministers and directors of the Governments of Germany and Luxembourg together with the World Bank, European Investment Bank, and Global Covenant of Mayors.

During the week of 7 to 13 September, the number of residents testing positive for COVID-19 remains practically unchanged with 282 people compared to 281 the previous week. ​ The number of PCR tests carried out on residents amounts to 50,912 compared to 47,868 the previous week.

"I condemn in the strongest terms the execution of Navid Afkari in Iran on 12 September 2020."

During the week of 31 August to 6 September, the number of residents testing positive for COVID-19 remains practically unchanged with 281 people compared to 288 the previous week. ​ The number of PCR tests carried out on residents amounts to 47,868.

Luxembourg has just successfully issued its first sovereign sustainability bond. Based on the new sustainability bond framework, presented on 2 September 2020, this €1.5 billion bond will contribute to finance and refinance sustainable projects.

The ESAIL microsatellite for tracking ships worldwide – developed under ESA's Partnership Projects programme – has been launched last night aboard an Arianespace Vega from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

During the week of 24 to 30 August, the number of residents testing positive for COVID-19 remains practically unchanged with 288 people compared to 292 the previous week. ​

Luxembourg becomes the first European country to launch a Sustainability Bond Framework. This innovative framework, which meets the highest market standards, is also the first in the world to fully comply with the new recommendations of the European taxonomy for green financing.

New Convention signed with the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) The Luxembourg Minister for Foreign and European Affairs Jean

The European Commissioner responsible for transport, Adina Vălean, reacted to the open letter from Minister François Bausch in which he called for massive investment to extend the European rail network.

Preliminary test results published by the Charité hospital in Berlin indicate that one of the main figures of the political opposition in Russia, Alexei Navalny was poisoned. I join my EU colleagues in wishing Mr Navalny a prompt and full recovery and expressing our sympathy to his family at this difficult time.

During the week of 10 to 16 August, the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 and the number of contacts are in clear decline. During this period, 249 new infections (-30%), as well as 1,779 contacts (-27%) were recorded.

During the week of 27 July to 2 August, the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 and the number of contacts identified remained stable at a high level.

On 4 August 2020, a cooperation agreement was signed between the Ministry of the Economy, as the supervisory body of the Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA), and Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) in view of the creation by the end of 2020, in Luxembourg, of a "European Space Resources Innovation Centre”, called ESRIC in abbreviated form.

The Minister of the Economy Franz Fayot and the Minister for Higher Education and Research Claude Meisch visited Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) on Monday. Their motive was an inspection and demonstration of the “Cross-Functional Dashboard”, in relation to the country’s COVID-19 data.