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Françoise Folmer
Françoise Folmer (born 6 January 1961 in Esch-sur-Alzette) is a Luxembourgish architect and politician. She was named Woman Business Manager of the Year for 2011 by the Banque Internationale à Luxembourg. In March 2015, she became leader of The Greens (Luxembourg), The Greens. She quit this position in June 2018 to preserve her privacy. References External linksOfficial website 1961 births Living people Luxembourgian architects The Greens (Luxembourg) politicians People from Esch-sur-Alzette {{Luxembourg-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esch-sur-Alzette
Esch-sur-Alzette (, ; ; or ''Esch an der Alzig'') is a city in Luxembourg and the country's List of communes of Luxembourg by population, second-most populous commune, with a population of 36,625 inhabitants, . It lies in the south-west of the country, on the border with France and in the valley of the Alzette, which flows through the city. The city is usually referred to as just Esch; however, the full name distinguishes it from the village and commune of Esch-sur-Sûre which lies further north. The country's capital, Luxembourg City, is roughly to the north-east. Esch was selected as the European Capital of Culture for 2022, alongside Kaunas and Novi Sad. History The town was mentioned for the first time in 12 April 1128 in a message for Pope Honorius II. For a long time Esch was a small farming village in the valley of the Uelzecht river. This changed when important amounts of iron ore were found in the area in the 1850s. With the development of the mines and the Steel in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banque Internationale à Luxembourg
Banque Internationale à Luxembourg S.A. (BIL, "International Bank in Luxembourg": Luxembourgish: ''International Bank zu Lëtzebuerg'') is the oldest private bank in Luxembourg. It offers commercial and corporate banking services, and was the country's third-largest employer by 2011, with 3,640 employees. Since 2018, it has been majority-owned by China-headquartered Legend Holdings. The bank has offices in Luxembourg, Switzerland and China. BIL has been designated in 2018 as a Significant Institution under the criteria of European Banking Supervision, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank. History The bank was founded on 8 March 1856, with involvement of leading financiers Gustav Mevissen, Abraham Oppenheim, and the Pereire brothers. Its initial shareholders included the banking houses Emile Erlanger & Co. (40 percent), Sal. Oppenheim (16 percent), and A. Schaaffhausen'scher Bankverein (16 percent). Its first counter opened on 31 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Greens (Luxembourg)
The Greens (, , ) is a green politics, green list of political parties in Luxembourg, political party in Luxembourg. Party history 1983–93 The Luxembourgish Greens were founded on 23 June 1983 as the Green Alternative Party (GAP). Among its founding members were people engaged in the peace movement and the movement against a nuclear power plant in Luxembourg. Many came from left socialist groups that had split from the LSAP and from the former Maoist movement who had already in 1979 been involved in the electoral Alternative List - Resist. In the Luxembourgian legislative election, 1984, 1984 elections, the party two seats in the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg, Chamber of Deputies. In 1985, however the GAP split and its more conservative wing founded the Green List Ecological Initiative (GLEI). They competed separately in the Luxembourgian legislative election, 1989, 1989 election, where they won two seats each. 1994–2003 In 1994, the two parties presented a common lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Births
Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Luxembourgian Architects
Luxembourgish ( ; also ''Luxemburgish'', ''Luxembourgian'', ''Letzebu(e)rgesch''; ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide. The language is standardized and officially the national language of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. As such, Luxembourgish is different from the German language also used in the Grand Duchy. The German language exists in a national standard variety of Luxembourg, which is slightly different from the standard varieties in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. Another important language of Luxembourg is French, which had a certain influence on both the national language, Luxembourgish, and the Luxembourg national variety of German. Luxembourgish, German and French are the three official languages ''(Amtssprachen)'' of Luxembourg. As a standard form of the Moselle Franconian language, Luxembourgish has similarities with other High German dialects and the wider group of West Germanic lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Greens (Luxembourg) Politicians
The Greens or Greens may refer to: Current political parties *The Greens – The Green Alternative, Austria *Australian Greens, also known as ''The Greens'' *Greens of Andorra * The Greens (Benin) *The Greens (Bulgaria) * Greens of Bosnia and Herzegovina *Greens of Burkina *The Greens (Denmark) *Greens–European Free Alliance, in the European Parliament * Green League (Finland), also known as ''The Greens'' *Europe Ecology – The Greens, France *Alliance 90/The Greens, Germany * Greens (Greece) *The Greens (Israel) *Federation of the Greens, Italy *The Greens (Luxembourg) *The Greens (Mauritius) *Greens of Montenegro * The Greens (Netherlands) *Greens of Serbia * Greens of Slovenia *Greens (South Tyrol) *Confederation of the Greens, Spain *Green Party of Switzerland *The Greens (Poland) *Ecologist Party "The Greens", Portugal Historical political parties *The Greens (France) * The Greens, a political faction and associated chariot-racing team in the Byzantine empire; involved in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
