2008 in Luxembourg

The following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

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See also:	Other events of 2008 List of years in Luxembourg

Incumbents

Position	Incumbent
Grand Duke	Henri
Prime Minister	Jean-Claude Juncker
Deputy Prime Minister	Jean Asselborn
President of the Chamber of Deputies	Lucien Weiler
President of the Council of State	Alain Meyer
Mayor of Luxembourg City	Paul Helminger

Events

January – March

• 24 January – The section of the A7 motorway between Lorentzweiler and Schoenfels opens.[1]
• 1 April – A new terminal, the General Aviation Terminal, is opened at Luxembourg – Findel Airport by Lucien Lux.[2]
• 15 February – Roger Molitor is appointed to the Council of State, replacing Pierre Mores, who resigned the previous September.[3]
• 20 February – The Chamber of Deputies votes 30-26 in favour of the first reading of a bill legalising voluntary euthanasia in certain circumstances.

April – June

• 25 April – A new terminal, Terminal A, is opened at Luxembourg – Findel Airport by Grand Duke Henri.[4]
• 20 May – The 2007-08 season of the National Division finishes, with F91 Dudelange winning the title for a fourth successive season.
• 22 May – Jean-Claude Juncker delivers his fourteenth State of the Nation address.
• 24 May – CS Grevenmacher win the Luxembourg Cup, beating FC Victoria Rosport 4-1 in the final, having relegated Rosport from the National Division the previous week.
• 8 June – The Netherlands' Joost Posthuma wins the 2008 Tour de Luxembourg.
• 17 June – Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands sign a new Benelux treaty.

July – September

• 29 August – Office rental group Regus announces that it would move its headquarters from the United Kingdom to Luxembourg.
• 10 September – Luxembourg's national football team defeats Switzerland 2-1 to record their first competitive victory since 1995.
• 28 September – The governments of Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands agree to part-nationalise Fortis and recapitalise the bank with public money. Luxembourg's government injects €2.5bn, and receives 49% of Fortis's Luxembourg operations in return.
• 30 September – Dexia is part-nationalised by the governments of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Luxembourg loans Dexia €400m.

October – December

• 6 October – The new 'Judiciary City' in Luxembourg City is officially inaugurated.
• 3 November – The National Literature Awards are held, with Carine Krecké winning first prize.
• 19 November – The national football team draws 1-1 with Belgium, three days before the Luxembourg Football Federation's hundredth anniversary.
• 2 December – Grand Duke Henri unexpectedly announces that he will not sign the pending euthanasia bill if it is passed by the Chamber of Deputies, creating a constitutional crisis.
• 9 December – Cyclist Fränk Schleck is cleared of doping charges.
• 11 December – The Chamber of Deputies votes 56 votes to none, with one abstention, to strip the Grand Duke of his right to withhold assent from legislation.
• 12 December – A Belgian court rules that the division of Fortis between the three Benelux governments cannot proceed.

Deaths

• 29 January – Marcelle Lentz-Cornette, politician
• 27 June – Alex Bonn, jurist

Footnotes

1. "Evolution du réseau autoroutier" (in French). Administration des Ponts et Chaussées. 24 January 2008. Archived from the original on 3 March 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2008.
2. "Inauguration du terminal d'aviation générale" (in French). Service Information et Presse. 1 February 2008. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
3. "Membres depuis 1857" (in French). Council of State. Archived from the original on 2009-11-03. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
4. "Inauguration du nouveau terminal A de l'aéroport de Luxembourg" (in French). Service Information et Presse. 25 April 2008. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2011.