On Off exhibition. Luxembourg

If you are living or stopping by in Luxembourg, don't hesitate to visit the latest art exhibition of Casino d'Art Contemporain : OnOff. As they mention it, "Throughout the year, the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain organises contemporary art exhibitions, focusing on the diversity and complexity of current artistic approaches and attitudes".

OnOff is an interesting exhibition around the concept of lighti illustrated by "fifteen works of light in movement, some of which have been designed specially for the occasion, works to transform the building into a bright jewel-case, a field of intense and yet somehow disturbing artistic radiation".

I sometimes do have hard time with "modern art" but this exhbition was original and surprising with some really innovative and smart use of "light".

Blogdelux.lu : Day-8

Only 8 more days before the first bloggers meeting in Luxembourg : http://www.blogdelux.lu.Thanks to all the media that already supported this event such as Radio Ara, Le Wort (the number one information daily newspaper in Luxembourg, in Luxembourgish):

Contacto (the portuguese community newspaper > Luxembourg has a huge portuguese community and few of its big bloggers are blogging in this language) :

La Voix : one the biggest newspaper (in French)

Paperjam (the biggest business, communication and finance magazine)

Les Frontaliers.lu : one of the biggest website in Luxembourg for the French and belgian citizens who travel everyday to come to work in Luxembourg. (the site is operated by the same team who run Jamendo, the web2.0 music community : Laurent Kratz > watch his interview on culture-buzz.c om...).

Station.lu : the information website of the english community in Luxembourg

Finally one of the challenge in the luxembourgish and Great Region blogosphere is one of the charm of the country : the number of used languages. Luxembourgish, french, german, english portuguese, italian,... wow so much languages for such a small country. But so nice to have the opportunity to exchange with people from so many countries and cultures... The world village is maybe finally... Luxembourg...

Blogdelux.lu : Join the first Bloggers meeting in Luxembourg

If you are available on Saturday 27th of January in Luxembourg, join us at http://www.blogdelux.lu for the first bloggers meeting in the area. After a little study we have found more than 150 people blogging in Luxembourg and accross the borders in France, Belgium and Germany... If you have ideas or suggestions to improve or be involve in this event, do not hesitate to contact us...

Le Luxembourg abolira son impôt sur la fortune

Le Grand-duché du Luxembourg compte abolir son impôt sur la fortune afin d'y attirer les entrepreneurs étrangers et les personnes fortunées, a déclaré le ministre du Trésor luxembourgeois Luc Frieden (...) "Notre objectif est de faire du Luxembourg un pays où l'épargne est encouragée. Le projet s'applique aux résidents du Luxembourg et évidemment aussi aux étrangers qui souhaitent venir résider au Luxembourg". Le Luxembourg impose actuellement les revenus du patrimoine de ses résidents lorsqu'ils sont d'au moins 1.500 euros par an. Toute personne soumise à la tranche la plus élevée de l'impôt sur le revenu, soit 38%, est aussi imposée au même taux sur ces revenus. (source : Forum Entreprises/sa Editions PMEKMO)

Bon je suis loin de me sentir encore concerné ;-) mais c'est intéressant de voir comment le Grand Duché pense systématiquement "compétitivité du pays", comme si celui-ci était gérer par un manager devant se positionner sans cesse devant la concurrence mondiale.