Sorbonne won’t admit Luxembourg medical students in next academic year
Sorbonne University will not accept any new medical students from Luxembourg in the 2025/2026 academic year, the Ministry of Research and Higher Education confirmed responding to a parliamentary question on Wednesday.
From October, those hoping to study medicine at the Paris institution will need to find alternatives. The University of Luxembourg requires students pursuing a medical degree to complete one of the first three years of their bachelor’s programme abroad.
Spuerkeess fined €5 million for Caritas failings
Spuerkeess has been fined almost €5 million by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) for shortcomings in its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing controls related to an unnamed “charitable foundation”, the regulator said on Wednesday.
While the CSSF in its press release did not name the foundation, it is believed to be Caritas, which has been embroiled in an embezzlement scandal over €61 million that went missing last year.
Customers lose thousands in fake BIL website scam
Customers have been scammed out of thousands of euros by fraudulent websites imitating the Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL) and the Luxtrust verification service, with little being done to close the webpages down, deputies have said.
Luxembourg finance workers create more value per head than any other sector
Employees in Luxembourg’s financial sector generated an average of €236,400 in gross value added in 2024, making them the most productive in the country’s economy, Luxembourg for Finance said in a report released on Friday that underlines the Grand Duchy’s reliance on its finance industry.
Their output is 2.4 times the national average while the entire finance industry alone accounted for 30.1% of Luxembourg’s GDP last year, up from 27.6% in 2014, the “State of the Financial Sector” report by the lobby group said.
Pro-Palestine protests set Luxembourg record, says group
A group which has organised regular protests in support of Palestine in Luxembourg’s capital since 7 October 2023 said it has now surpassed the longest series of demonstrations held in the Grand Duchy, as it marks its 200th in two years.
The Collectives for Palestine group said its five consecutive days of protest held this week in the Hamilius area of Luxembourg City, under the End the genocide, end the famine banner, had set a new record.