European Parliament

The Little Country that Could

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May 21st 2009
I don't even know how to say hello in Luxembourgerish so I'm not going to try, I should have probably added some of this on the last one but we did some stuff in Strasbourg in the morning before we left for Luxembourg. We visited the Council of Europe, which is an independent body from the EU and still has some role, I don't know how to explain it really because it's ridiculously complicated ... read more

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Founded in 963, Luxembourg became a grand duchy in 1815 and an independent state under the Netherlands. It lost more than half of its territory to Belgium in 1839, but gained a larger measure of autonomy. Full independence was attained in 1867. Overr... ... read more