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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has been in the vanguard of European integration ever since the early 1950s. It was a founder member of the European Coal and Steel Community, EEC and EURATOM, and of their successor European Union. It has taken part in every European election since the first in 1979 and has used the euro since its introduction in 2002. It has supplied two Presidents of the European Commission and has so far held the Presidency of the Council of Ministers 11 times (only France and Germany have done so more often). Its widely respected current Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, is not only the EU’s longest serving head of government but since 2004 has been President of the Eurogroup of Finance Ministers of the countries using the euro.
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Poirier, P. (2005) ‘Luxembourg’, in Juliet Lodge (ed.) The 2004 Elections to the European Parliament, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Hearl, D. (2010). Luxembourg. In: Lodge, J. (eds) The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament. EU Election Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297272_20
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