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The CNPD presented its annual report with the key figures for the year 2018 at a press conference in Esch/Belval today.

The Service des Médias et des Communications (SMC) has just released the third version of the "frequently asked questions"; document related to the call for projects on 5G and related technologies.

The Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) is celebrating its first year in business with the launch of a greatly enhanced web presence. The new website incorporates the Luxembourg Space Directory and provides a new home for the Spaceresources.lu initiative.

On 9 September 2019, Pierre Gramegna, Minister of Finance of Luxembourg, and J. Randolph Evans, U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, announced that the respective ratification procedures of the Protocol amending the Double Taxation Convention have been completed, thus bringing the Protocol into force.

On 6 September 2019 the Ministry of Finance of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg signed a letter of understanding (LOU) with the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) to launch a new multi-donor collaboration framework that will help bolster financial inclusion across the African continent.

During the visit of Luxembourg’s Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider, to the NorthStar Earth & Space headquarters in Montreal, a cooperation was launched to enable a Clean Space initiative to foster sustainability in space.

On 18 July 2019, during the last day of the economic mission to South Korea, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider, presented the Luxembourg space sector at the "Korea Space Forum".

On July 17, 2019, the second day of the economic mission to South Korea led by Étienne Schneider was dominated by an event in Seoul to promote and present the Luxembourg ecosystem for young innovative companies.

On the occasion of a seminar held in Seoul on July 16, 2019 during the economic mission to South Korea, Luxembourg presented itself as a centre of excellence for all management, analysis and highly secure hosting of data as well as distribution of digital content, in particular thanks to its excellent connectivity on both national and international level.

ANA will provide sophisticated “airside-driving-training” to internal staff and external stakeholders of the airport platform. The system makes an important contribution to the success of ANA’S training organization by increasing training capacity for the growing number of airside drivers.

Opening the 2019 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Annual Meeting in Luxembourg in the presence of HRH Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Fernand Etgen, Xavier Bettel and Pierre Gramegna, AIIB President Jin Liqun set out the Bank's commitment to drive the green economy through sustainable, adaptable and innovative infrastructure investment.

Spire Global, one of the world's largest space-to-cloud analytics companies, today announced that Spire Global Luxembourg will launch its open source Data Lake as of July 10th.

Led by the Ministry of the Economy, Fit 4 Start is Luxembourg's national reference programme dedicated to support high potential start-ups by giving them access to early-stage financing and personalised coaching.

Interview with Étienne Schneider in Merkur.

As part of a visit celebrating American Independence Day and the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, famous astronaut Buzz Aldrin met on July 3, 2019 with both the Luxembourg Space Agency team and the Government Advisory Board on Space Resources.