BUSINESS
Gary Kneip and his wife, Julie Walker Mandell and Robert Mandell
Marita Ruiter and Ricarda Braun
Amcham fall welcome back
SCHNEIDER SPEAKS FRANKLY
Yves Cheret and James O’Neal
The American Chamber of Commerce in Luxembourg’s traditional fall welcome back reception at the end of October saw minister for the economy Etienne Schneider deliver an entertaining and candid speech at the US Ambassador’s residence. The minister spoke about the challenges facing Luxembourg, such as attracting qualified talent and businesses in new sectors of the economy to Luxembourg, promoting Luxembourg abroad and the problems of balancing the budget--he is dead against raising taxes, which would be
Guy de Muyser and Roeland Pels
Hélène Michel and Dilek Ayaydin
“poison for the economy.”
Schneider said that best promotion for the country recently had been the wedding of Crown Prince Guillaume. “The 350,000 euro contribution from the government was a bargain,” he said. “They should marry more often,” he joked. For a full report and more photos see www.delano.lu DR Photographed by Olivier Minaire Keith Hopper and Adrienne Chang and Thierry Leterre
Roy Suhash and Charles Oakes
Guy Castegnaro and Paul Schonenberg
US Ambassador Robert Mandell and minister for the economy Etienne Schneider
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