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Service De Renseignement De L'État
The Service de Renseignement de l'État, full name Service de renseignement de l'État du Luxembourg (, , abbr. SREL), is Luxembourg's homeland intelligence agency. The agency is colloquially known in Luxembourgish as the "''Spëtzeldéngscht''“ ("Spy Service"). Purpose The SRE was set up to collect and evaluate data, to deal with threats to Luxembourg, its allies or international organisations based in the country, particularly in regard to critical infrastructure, especially energy and water infrastructure, road infrastructure, and information technology. The service was restructured in 2004, under pressure from the “ war on terror”, created after the terror attacks on 11 September 2001. The restructuring resulted in the legal basis for the creation of an intelligence agency (''Loi du 15 juin 2004 portant organisation du Service de Renseignement de l’Etat'') to deal with the following threats: *Preparation and execution of terrorist attacks *Espionage *Interference of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luxembourg
Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France on the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembourg City, is one of the four institutional seats of the European Union and hosts several EU institutions, notably the Court of Justice of the European Union, the highest judicial authority in the EU. As part of the Low Countries, Luxembourg has close historic, political, and cultural ties to Belgium and the Netherlands. Luxembourg's culture, people, and languages are greatly influenced by France and Germany: Luxembourgish, a Germanic language, is the only recognized national language of the Luxembourgish people and of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; French is the sole language for legislation; and both languages along with German are used for administrative matters. With an area of , Luxembourg is Europe's seventh-smallest count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Bausch
François Bausch (born 16 October 1956) is a Luxembourgish politician of the Greens who served as Second Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 2019 to 2023. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1989 to 1992, from 1994 to 2013 and from 2023 to 2024. Prior to entering the government, Bausch was leader of the Greens in the Chamber. Political career Chamber of Deputies Bausch first joined the Chamber of Deputies after the 1989 legislative election. Though not elected directly, he took over the seat of , who died shortly after the election. He resigned on 11 October 1992, along with Jean Huss, under the Greens' agreed rotation system, allowing other candidates to serve as deputies. In the 1993 local elections, Bausch was elected to the communal council of Luxembourg City (starting 1 January 1994), and he was returned to the Chamber at the following year's election. In 1999, Bausch finished second to Renée Wagener amongst Greens candidates in the Centre cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Agencies Of Luxembourg
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The main types of modern political systems recognized are democracies, totalitarian regimes, and, sitting between these two, authoritarian regimes with a variety of hybrid regimes. Modern classification systems also include monarchies as a standalone entity or as a hybrid system of the main three. Historically prevalent f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Schneider (spy)
Frank Schneider (born 1970 or 1971) is a fugitive and former spy within the Luxembourgish State Intelligence service. Biography Schneider worked at the United States Embassy in Luxembourg before gaining employment at the Service de Renseignement de l'État (SREL). Until his dismissal in 2008 due to a domestic wiretapping scandal, Schneider was the operational director of the SREL, the intelligence agency of Luxembourg. After his dismissal from SREL in 2008, he headed a private intelligence company. Sandstone & OneCoin Schneider founded the private investigation firm Sandstone S.A. in 2015. Sandstone was hired by the Ruja Ignatova associated OneCoin. In April 2021, he was arrested by the French police in relation to a fraud case concerning OneCoin in the US. His extradiction was postponed until September of that year. He faces five years in prison in Luxembourg and 40 years in prison in the US. In 2023, he escaped house arrest and went on the run. In 2024, New Zealand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg
RTL may refer to: Media * RTL Group, a European TV, radio, and production company *** List of RTL Group's television stations (including part-owned channels) *** List of RTL Group's radio stations ** RTL Lëtzebuerg, usually referred to simply as RTL ** RTL (German TV channel) ** RTL (Hungarian TV channel), formerly known as RTL Klub ** RTL (French radio) ** RTL Nederland * RTL 102.5, Italian radio station unaffiliated with RTL Group ** RTL 102.5 TV, Italian music television channel, broadcasting live video feed of radio station RTL 102.5 * RTL9, Luxembourg television channel formerly owned by RTL Group * RTL (Croatian TV channel), Croatian television channel formerly owned by RTL Group Computing and electronics * Prefix in model/part numbers of some Realtek integrated circuits * Register-transfer level or register-transfer logic, of a digital logic circuit * Register transfer language, a type of computer language * Hewlett-Packard Raster Transfer Language, a comman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luxembourg General Election, 2013
Early general elections were held in Luxembourg on 20 October 2013. The elections were called after Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, at the time the longest-serving head of government in the European Union, announced his resignation over a spy scandal involving the Service de Renseignement de l'État (SREL). The review found Juncker deficient in his control over the service. Although the elections saw Juncker's Christian Social People's Party (CSV) lose three seats, but remain the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies with 23 of the 60 seats, Xavier Bettel of the Democratic Party (DP) succeeded him as Prime Minister. Background After a spy scandal involving the Service de Renseignement de l'État illegally wiretapping politicians, the Grand Duke and his family, as well as allegations of paying for favours in exchange for access to government ministers and officials leaked through the press, Prime Minister Juncker submitted his resignation to the Grand Duke on 11 July 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tageblatt
''Tageblatt'' is a German language daily newspaper published in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg by Editpress. Overview ''Tageblatt'' was established in 1913. The paper is the country's second-most popular newspaper, behind the rival '' Luxemburger Wort''. ''Tageblatt'' describes itself as the ''Zeitung fir Lëtzebuerg'' (Luxembourgish for ''the newspaper for Luxembourg''). Although it is mainly published in German, it has also sections published in French language. The daily is owned by socialist trade unions. The publisher is Editpress Luxembourg SA, which also publishes ''Le Jeudi'' and '' Le Quotidien''. As of 2007 the daily had close relations with the Socialist Party (LSAP). The newspaper received €1,659,554 in annual state press subsidy in 2009: more than any other newspaper. The circulation of ''Tageblatt'' was 27,081 copies in 2003. In 2004, the paper had a daily circulation of 17,106: about one-quarter that of ''Luxemburger Wort''. In the mid-2000s its readership was 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker (; born 9 December 1954) is a Luxembourgish politician who was List of prime ministers of Luxembourg, prime minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013 and president of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019. He also was List of Ministers for Finances of Luxembourg, Finance Minister from 1989 to 2009 and President of the Eurogroup from 2005 to 2013. By the time Juncker left office as prime minister in 2013, he was the longest-serving head of any national government in the EU and one of the longest-serving democratically elected leaders in the world, with his tenure encompassing the height of the Eurozone crisis, European financial and sovereign debt crisis. In 2005, he became the first permanent President of the Eurogroup. In 2014, the European People's Party (EPP) had Juncker as its lead candidate, or ''Spitzenkandidat'', for the presidency of the Commission in the 2014 European Parliament election, 2014 elections. This marked the first time that the ''Spitz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombers Affair
The Bombers Affair (Luxembourgish: ''Bommeleeër Affär'') is the name given to a series of bomb attacks on infrastructure installations and public buildings in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg between May 1984 and April 1986. The identities of the perpetrators and the motives are not known; however, the population developed a diverse set of conspiracy theories. Many believe that members of the Luxembourgish Government or Grand Ducal Family, as well as insiders in the Security Services were involved in the attacks. (German). In: ''Wort'', 25 February 2015 Events The perpetrators carried out thefts of detonators and explosives from Luxembourgish qu ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luxembourgish Language
Luxembourgish ( ; also ''Luxemburgish'', ''Luxembourgian'', ''Letzebu(e)rgesch''; ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide. The language is standardized and officially the national language of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. As such, Luxembourgish is different from the German language also used in the Grand Duchy. The German language exists in a national standard variety of Luxembourg, which is slightly different from the standard varieties in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. Another important language of Luxembourg is French, which had a certain influence on both the national language, Luxembourgish, and the Luxembourg national variety of German. Luxembourgish, German and French are the three official languages ''(Amtssprachen)'' of Luxembourg. As a standard form of the Moselle Franconian language, Luxembourgish has similarities with other High German dialects and the wider group of West Germanic lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organized Crime
Organized crime is a category of transnational organized crime, transnational, national, or local group of centralized enterprises run to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. While organized crime is generally thought of as a form of illegal business, some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, terrorist groups, rebel groups, and Separatism, separatists, are politically motivated. Many criminal organizations rely on fear or terror to achieve their goals or aims as well as to maintain control within the organization and may adopt tactics commonly used by authoritarianism, authoritarian regimes to maintain power. Some forms of organized crime simply exist to cater towards demand of illegal goods in a state or to facilitate trade of goods and services that may have been banned by a state (such as illegal drugs or firearms). Sometimes, criminal organizations force people to do business with them, such as when a gang extorts protection racket, protec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weapon Of Mass Destruction
A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people or cause great damage to artificial structures (e.g., buildings), natural structures (e.g., mountains), or the biosphere. The scope and usage of the term has evolved and been disputed, often signifying more politically than technically. Originally coined in reference to aerial bombing with chemical explosives during World War II, it has later come to refer to large-scale weaponry of warfare-related technologies, such as biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear warfare. Early usage The first use of the term "weapon of mass destruction" on record is by Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1937 in reference to the bombing of Guernica, Spain: At the time, nuclear weapons had not been developed fully. Japan conducted research on biological weapons, and chemical weapons had seen wide battlefield use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
