Corinne Cahen, Vernissage Judenrein Differdange

Corinne Cahen is a

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politician who has been Minister of Family and Integration and the Greater Region in the

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since 4 December 2013. She was born on 16 May 1973 in

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, and grew up in a Jewish family in the Bonnevoie neighborhood of

. After her high school graduation, she left for

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to study translation, business, and journalism. She then worked as a journalist for the AFP and

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, which included a period as a

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correspondent in Washington, D.C. After her return to Luxembourg, she worked for Eldoradio,

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, and her family's shoe business. Before entering politics, she was a business woman managing her family's shoe shops in Luxembourg-City and was active as president for the retail business association of

from 2008 to 2012.

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