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Europe 2.0: The new challenges of the European Union

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Shaw Library, Old Building,

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Xavier Bettel

With Luxembourg chairing the EU Council of Ministers, the Luxembourg Prime Minister will focus on the various challenges the Luxembourg Presidency had to face since July and the implementation of its ambitious programme of work in order to prepare the EU for the challenges ahead. 

Xavier Bettel (@Xavier_Bettel) is Prime Minister of Luxembourg.

Following the legislative elections of 20 October 2013, Xavier Bettel was appointed Prime Minister, Minister of State, Minister for Communications and Media, Minister for Religious Affairs on 4 December 2013 in the coalition government formed by the Democratic Party (DP), the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP) and the Green Party (“déi gréng”).

A member of the DP since 1989, Xavier Bettel was elected to Parliament for the first time in 1999 at the age of 26 while standing for the DP in the constituency of the Centre. He was re-elected in 2004, 2009 and 2013. In Parliament, he assumed among others the roles of vice-chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee from 2004 to 2013 and vice-chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the State Intelligence Service from 2012 to 2013. From 2009 to 2011, he assumed the role of chairman of the DP parliamentary group.

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