News you can use - 29 April 2020

Luxembourg has announced to Covid19 test every one of its 613000 population within the next 1 month. Government has allocated a budget of EUR 40m to this extent.

https://www.deccanherald.com/international/luxembourg-plans-to-test-entire-population-for-coronavirus-831215.html

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The large scale testing strategy is formulated by a task force. Essentially done in three stages

• Stage 1: a representative population of a contingent is tested. The results of these tests give an indication of when the contingent can be freed from restrictions and when it should be tested on a large scale
• Stage 2: All persons in the contingent are invited to be tested on a voluntary basis.
• Stage 3: A representative group is selected shortly after the exit measures in order to be tested a second time. This allows monitoring of whether and how the virus is spreading within the contingent.
• https://researchluxembourg.lu/covid-19-taskforce/testing-strategy/

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The Tax report says that EU loses $27 billion a year because of tax avoidance in Switzerland, Netherlands, UK and Luxembourg. https://www.taxjustice.net/2020/04/27/eu-loses-over-27-billion-in-corporate-tax-a-year-to-uk-switzerland-luxembourg-and-netherlands/

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Luxembourg to be the first EU country to legalise recreational cannabis

https://cbdtesters.co/2020/04/25/luxembourg-likely-to-be-first-eu-country-to-legalize-recreational-cannabis/