The Honorable Cynthia Stroum, Accredited U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg

Oops! I almost missed this:

January 28, 2010 Ambassador Cynthia Stroum presented her credentials to His Royal Highness Grand Duke Henri at the Grand Ducal Palace.

As found on: http://luxembourg.usembassy.gov/

That would have been inexcusable for me to miss the news, as this blog abundantly followed the making of an ambassador. Please see:

http://egidethein.blogspot.com/2009/10/testimony-of-cynthia-stroum-ambassador.html

and:

http://egidethein.blogspot.com/2009/11/us-ambassador-designate-to-luxembourg.html

Now that credential business evokes some old souvenirs for myself. I won't tell you though, until my memoirs are published. Hopefully soon.

Profitable Yet Untouched Gambling Market Lies in Luxembourg | GamingZion

Profitable Yet Untouched Gambling Market Lies in Luxembourg GamingZion

I "bet" that the Minister of Finance will eventually warm up to such an idea when other tax income streams run cold.

Luxembourg-Bahrain, Gulf Daily News » Business News » Bahrain in key deal with Luxembourg

Gulf Daily News » Business News » Bahrain in key deal with Luxembourg

It sure consolidates a Luxembourg financial center, to strengthen ties with GCC countries.

When Luxembourg promotes itself

The Luxembourg Government has launched an interesting and creative video campaign to promote Luxembourg.

http://www.promoteluxembourg.com/content/business

In a series of 10 clips, various facets of Luxembourg life and business are presented in a dynamic way. Really well done. Good job!

It is a surprisingly coordinated effort in a country that boasts one hundred medieval castles, a reason to visit there all by itself. But I'm rather talking about the one hundred strongholds, reservations and privileged territories staked out by jealous politicians and civil servants who in any country make such a common effort usually impossible. So, behind the project some magic occurred to make this a unified effort.

There is only one thing that intrigues me. Psst, Producer! I know that none of your clients really supervised you. Were they bureaucrats? But that one thing, was it done on purpose? An oversight? A typo?

BUROCRACY IS MISSPELLED! But on second thought, leave it in there. It shows that Luxembourg knows nothing about bureaucracy, cannot figure out how it works or how it is spelled. With some afterthought, it is a subliminal way to document that Burocracy, or whatever, doesn't exist in Luxembourg.

You could also turn this into a quiz: the first person, myself excepted of course, to find a typo wins a free trip for two to Luxembourg.

Flights from Luxembourg to Canada? - Topix

Flights from Luxembourg to Canada? - Topix

Yep, that's what they say!
Not only Luxembourg - Winnipeg via Reykjavik.

Also Luxembourg - New York, as in the good old days of Icelandair.

One word of resentment though. How come Icelandair stopped flying from Luxembourg in the 90's? After a multi million bailout by the Luxembourg Government?

What about some really cheap tickets for Luxembourg tax payers as a refund?

Otherwise, good luck.