2008 in Luxembourg

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Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 January – March 2.2 April – June 2.3 July – September 2.4 October – December 3 Deaths 4 Footnotes

[edit] Incumbents

Position	Incumbent
Grand Duke	Henri
Prime Minister	Jean-Claude Juncker
Deputy Prime Minister	Jean Asselborn
President of the Chamber of Deputies	Lucien Weiler
President of the Council of State	Alain Meyer
Mayor of Luxembourg City	Paul Helminger

[edit] Events

[edit] January – March

• 24 January – The section of the A7 motorway between Lorentzweiler and Schoenfels opens.^[1]
• 15 February – Roger Molitor is appointed to the Council of State, replacing Pierre Mores, who resigned the previous September.^[2]
• 20 February – The Chamber of Deputies votes 30-26 in favour of the first reading of a bill legalising voluntary euthanasia in certain circumstances.

[edit] April – June

• 20 May – The 2007-08 season of the National Division finishes, with F91 Dudelange winning the title for a fourth successive season.
• 22 May – Jean-Claude Juncker delivers his fourteenth State of the Nation address.
• 24 May – CS Grevenmacher win the Luxembourg Cup, beating FC Victoria Rosport 4-1 in the final, having relegated Rosport from the National Division the previous week.
• 8 June – The Netherlands' Joost Posthuma wins the 2008 Tour de Luxembourg.
• 17 June – Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands sign a new Benelux treaty.

[edit] July – September

• 29 August – Office rental group Regus announces that it would move its headquarters from the United Kingdom to Luxembourg.
• 10 September – Luxembourg's national football team defeats Switzerland 2-1 to record their first competitive victory since 1995.
• 28 September – The governments of Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands agree to part-nationalise Fortis and recapitalise the bank with public money. Luxembourg's government injects €2.5bn, and receives 49% of Fortis's Luxembourg operations in return.
• 30 September – Dexia is part-nationalised by the governments of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Luxembourg loans Dexia €400m.

[edit] October – December

• 6 October – The new 'Judiciary City' in Luxembourg City is officially inaugurated.
• 3 November – The National Literature Awards are held, with Carine Krecké winning first prize.
• 19 November – The national football team draws 1-1 with Belgium, three days before the Luxembourg Football Federation's hundredth anniversary.
• 2 December – Grand Duke Henri unexpectedly announces that he will not sign the pending euthanasia bill if it is passed by the Chamber of Deputies, creating a constitutional crisis.
• 9 December – Cyclist Fränk Schleck is cleared of doping charges.
• 11 December – The Chamber of Deputies votes 56 votes to none, with one abstention, to strip the Grand Duke of his right to withhold assent from legislation.
• 12 December – A Belgian court rules that the division of Fortis between the three Benelux governments cannot proceed.

[edit] Deaths

• 29 January – Marcelle Lentz-Cornette, politician
• 27 June – Alex Bonn, jurist

[edit] Footnotes