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At the invitation of Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, TRH the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess are undertaking a State visit to the Kingdom of Belgium from 16 to 18 April 2024.

At the invitation of Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, TRH the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess are undertaking a State visit to the Kingdom of Belgium from 16 to 18 April 2024.

At the invitation of Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, TRH the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess are undertaking a State visit to the Kingdom of Belgium from 16 to 18 April 2024.

Minister of Finance Gilles Roth travelled to London from 20 to 22 March 2024 as part of a financial mission to further strengthen ties with the United Kingdom.

On 19 March 2024, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Denys Shmyhal, paid a working visit to Luxembourg. He was accompanied by the Ukrainian Minister of Finance, Sergii Marchenko, the Minister of Justice, Denys Maliuska, and the Deputy Minister of Economy, Taras Kachka.

The live stream is scheduled to start at around 13:30.

On International Women's Day, the Ministry of Finance announces the launch of seven working groups, each with a strategic focus to drive gender finance initiatives forward. These working groups were launched at a meeting of the Gender Finance Task Force, an initiative of the Ministry of Finance to champion gender equality in and by the financial sector.

On 6 March 2024, Minister of Finance Gilles Roth presented the State budget for 2024 to the Chamber of Deputies. The new government's first budget is being presented under the banner of a "new dynamic for our country" (Neie Schwong fir eist Land).

At the invitation of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Minister of Finance, Gilles Roth, attended the meetings of the Eurogroup and the Informal Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) in Ghent from 23 to 24 February 2024.

On 31 January 2024, the Prime Minister, Luc Frieden, the Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning, Claude Meisch, and the Minister of Finance, Gilles Roth, presented an initial package of measures which were adopted by the Government Council on the same day.

On 23 January 2024, Minister of Finance Gilles Roth presented the State's financial position at 31 December 2023 to the members of the Finance Committee and the Committee for Monitoring Budget Implementation.

Luxembourg, Switzerland, and UBS Optimus Foundation are joining forces to scale up impact investing globally.

On 20 December 2023, the Chamber of Deputies adopted the bill on minimum effective taxation to transpose into national legislation Council Directive (EU) 2022/2523 of 15 December 2022 to ensure a worldwide minimum level of taxation for multinational enterprise groups and large domestic groups in the European Union.

The annual United Nations Climate Change Conferences, held under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), bring together parties known as the Conference of the Parties (COP) to assess progress in addressing climate change.

To keep pace with the rapid development and growth of the crypto-asset market and to ensure that recent gains in global tax transparency will not be gradually eroded, we welcome the new international standard on automatic exchange of information between tax authorities developed by the OECD – the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF).