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At the invitation of Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, TRH the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess are undertaking a State visit to the Kingdom of Belgium from 16 to 18 April 2024.

At the invitation of Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, TRH the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess are undertaking a State visit to the Kingdom of Belgium from 16 to 18 April 2024.

At the invitation of Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, TRH the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess are undertaking a State visit to the Kingdom of Belgium from 16 to 18 April 2024.

On 3 April 2024, the second meeting of the IT Coalition Steering Group took place in Luxembourg, gathering representatives from ten participating nations, seven observer nations, the EU and NATO.

On 26 March 2024, Minister of Defence, Minister for Mobility and Public Works, Yuriko Backes, together with NSPA General Manager, Stacy Cummings, led the groundbreaking ceremony to inaugurate the construction of two administrative buildings for the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) headquarters in Capellen.

Following a DDoS (distributed denial of service) cyber attack aimed at preventing access to several Luxembourg websites, a crisis unit was convened in the afternoon, chaired by the Minister for Digitalisation, Stéphanie Obertin.

Since the morning of 21 March 2024, several government websites have been the target of a cyber DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. A DDOS attack consists of saturating the computer resources of targets.

On 19 March, the Minister of Defence Yuriko Backes attended the meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (UDCG) in Ramstein, Germany.

On 18 March 2024, Yuriko Backes, Minister of Defence, Lex Delles, Minister of the Economy, SME, Energy and Tourism, and Stéphanie Obertin, Minister for Research and Higher Education, launched a joint call for research and development (R&D) projects in the field of defence.

On 15 March 2024, the souvenir frame of the stamp commemorating the 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was handed over by Claude Strasser, Managing Director of POST Luxembourg, to Yuriko Backes, Minister of Defence.

On 7 March 2024, Defence Minister Yuriko Backes participated in a joint meeting of Foreign and Defence Ministers, held via videoconference at the initiative of the French Government, to discuss and coordinate support for Ukraine in exercising its right to self-defence.

On 30 and 31 January 2024, the Minister of Defence, Yuriko Backes, took part in the informal meeting of European Union defence ministers, under the Belgian Presidency, in Brussels.

On 31 January 2024, Minister of Defence Yuriko Backes and Minister of Defence of the Republic of Estonia Hanno Pevkur, exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding regarding the contribution by Luxembourg Defence of 12 million euros to the renovation of the Ämari Air Base, Estonia. The exchange took place on the sidelines of the informal meeting of Defence ministers of the EU in Brussels.

The Luxembourg Directorate of Defence announced on 15 November 2023 the launch of a Competence Hub in Research in Cybersecurity and Cyber Defence (CyberHub), in partnership with the University of Luxembourg.

On October 19, 2023, a groundbreaking ceremony was held to inaugurate the expansion of the Warehouses Service Agency (WSA) complex in Sanem, which is already the U.S. Air Forces in Europe's (USAFE) largest depot on the continent.