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GRAND SUJET — NETWORKS IN LUXEMBOURG
Playing the game
Photo: Andres Lejona
“It’s not what you know, but who you know,” so the saying goes. So get out and network. For a small country, Luxembourg is a networker’s paradise. How you use those networks to your personal advantage is up to you.
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Networking is about accessibility. In a large city, it consumes a lot of time travelling from work to a networking event or a club. Luxembourg city and country have proximity as a key characteristic. Events within the country are close and major European cities are a short drive away, meaning networks can draw from Brussels for example, even for a single evening event. Most smaller cities do not have the pool of personalities, nationalities, professionals, European Parliament and local ministries to draw from, that Luxembourg does. Play your cards right, pay your member fees, and you too can live on a diet of “crémant” and “canapés [>> 124]