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François de Rugy on visit to Luxembourg

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François Goullet de Rugy and Mars Di Bartolomeo.

Friday, 18 May 2018, Luxembourg City: Speaker of the French National Assembly François Goullet de Rugy was on a visit of parliamentary diplomacy to his Luxembourgish counterpart Mars Di Bartolomeo, and highlighted before the press that Franco-Luxembourgian relations were “very important”. 

According to statistics on working days 92,000 cross-border employees travel between the two countries. Other topics of discussion besides cross-border mobility were the Cattenom, the Schengen school, the cooperation for the Culture Capital 2022 (Esch-Uelzecht – Esch-sur-Alzette) and even the Brexit.

Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade – Picture by Chambre des députés du GDL.

For François  de Rugy it is clear that Luxembourg and France share plenty of European values, thus it is paramount that the European Union speak with one voice, he said before journalists.

M de Rugy was also welcomed for a bilateral meeting by the Prime Minister Xavier Bettel at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, official residence of the head of government.

The French deputy representing French nationals in the Benelux countries, M Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade, was partook in the delegation to the world’s only remaining Grand Duchy. There are 55,000 French nationals living in Luxembourg.

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Picture by Chambre des deputés du Grand Duché de Luxembourg

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