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The story of the Castle de Colnet as a castle of childless family becoming orphanage after the WWII.

Weekly column on contemporary history ("L'histoire du temps présent") in Luxembourg newspaper Tageblatt, here on the Affaire Springut, a jewish merchant arbitrarily emprisoned after Liberation of Luxembourg, on initiative of an antisemitic member of Luxembourg secret policy

Orient und Okzident bilden im Werk der Komponistin Sofia Gubaidulina genauso eine unverfälschte Mischung, wie sie selbst: Enkelin eines tatarischen Geistlichen und Gelehrten, aber russisch-orthodox getauft, ist sie Halbrussin und Halbtatarin. In Luxemburg wird ihr „Offertorium“ von Vadim Repin und dem OPL zusammen mit Dmitrij Schostakowitschs „Symphonie Nr. 11“ („Das Jahr 1905“) aufgeführt.

Weekly column on contemporary history ("L'histoire du temps présent") in Luxembourg newspaper Tageblatt, here on the end of international sanctions against Iran

Weekly column on contemporary history ("L'histoire du temps présent") in Luxembourg newspaper Tageblatt, here on Ed Maroldts book on development of Esch-sur-Alzette during the last 20 years

The article treats the current development of the Russian community in Luxembourg and its three main bases: religion, language and traditions.

The training workshop at the ‘Institut de formation de l'Éducation nationale’, entitled ‘Teaching about Europe: digital resources and tools’, was aimed at teachers in Luxembourg. The workshop particularly focused on the potential of the ‘MyPublications’ tool, available in the Digital Toolbox on cvce.eu. This tool enables teachers to reuse, customise and share the wide range of archive resources and explanatory articles available in the various collections on cvce.eu so that they can use them in a classroom setting by creating their own sequences of documents.

Weekly column on contemporary history ("L'histoire du temps présent") in Luxembourg newspaper Tageblatt, here on President Hollandes plan to take away French citizenship from dual nationals convicted of terrorism

This article deals with the emergence of a group of professional automobile pilots in Europe during the Interwar period. During the time, automobile racing was institutionalised and commercialised to a previously unknown extent, under the supervision of European automobile clubs, industrial groups and journalists. In this context, by following the trajectories of pilots, we study the conditions for exercising this practice – part sport, part social activity.

In the framework of the research project "Pierre Werner and Europe", interview with Bernard Snoy et d’Oppuers, an official at the World Bank from 1974 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1986, Economic Adviser at the Commission of the European Communities in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs from 1986 to 1988, Executive Director of the World Bank from 1991 to 1994, Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from 1994 to 2002 and Chairman of Robert Triffin International since 2008, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (C