International
Life in Luxembourg during COVID-19 By: Gijs Voppen & Antoin Feij
Dear readers, Trust you are all doing well. As a short introduction, for those who do not know us, we both graduated in August ‘19 from the International Tax LLM in Maastricht and shortly after we both signed our first contract with EY Luxembourg where we started as of September ‘19. In the end, we turned out to be the only 2 Dutch guys from our LLM who went to Luxembourg, in search for an interesting international environment to work in. Hereinafter, we will 22
share with you our personal Covid-19 experience from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. [Gijs]: Actually, on the eve before the day that corona measures were imposed in Luxembourg, we were having some drinks and dinner at Bazaar next to Place Guillaume (recommended). At the evening itself we were unaware that this would be our last dinner out, which is kind of a weekly recurring activity after work in Luxembourg. The day after the luxembourg government decided to JULI 2020 FIRM
close down all types of social gatherings, including pubs, restaurants etc. From the same moment onwards, many companies providing financial services decided that their employees should work from home for the benefits of the employees’ health and to avoid any further spread of the virus. This was also the moment when we started working from our homes, in Luxembourg often quite small living spaces as prices on the real estate market are extremely high compared to Maastricht.
