1995 in Luxembourg explained

The following lists events that happened during 1995 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Incumbents

• Grand Duke – Jean^[1]
• Prime Minister – Jacques Santer (to 20 January) Jean-Claude Juncker
• Deputy Prime Minister – Jacques Poos
• President of the Chamber of Deputies – Erna Hennicot-Schoepges
  Jean Spautz
• President of the Council of State – Paul Beghin
• Mayor of Luxembourg City – Lydie Polfer

Events

January – March

• 1 January – Luxembourg City becomes European City of Culture for 1995.
• 20 January – Jacques Santer resigns his position as Prime Minister. He take up his new post as President of the European Commission three days later. Jean-Claude Juncker takes Santer's place.
• 26 January – Jean-Claude Juncker forms a new government, with Jacques Poos as his deputy.
• 22 February – At football, Luxembourg beats Malta 1–0, recording Luxembourg's first victory in international football since 1980.
• 26 March – The Schengen Agreement comes into force.

April – June

• 25 May – CS Grevenmacher and Jeunesse Esch draw in the final of the Luxembourg Cup, 1-1 after extra time, forcing the game to go to a replay.
• 7 June – The national football team shocks the Czech Republic by winning 1–0 in the qualifying round of the 1996 European Championship: a competition in which the Czechs would reach the final.
• 11 June – CS Grevenmacher win the Luxembourg Cup, beating Jeunesse Esch 3–2 in the replay.
• 11 June – Switzerland's Rolf Järmann wins the 1995 Tour de Luxembourg.
• 21 June - The A3 motorway extension from Croix de Gasperich to Bonnevoie, in Luxembourg City, opens.^[2]
• July – The A13 motorway extension from Biff to Rodange, bypassing Pétange, opens.

July – September

• 31 July – A law is passed giving the go-ahead to the construction of the Liaison avec le Sarre, extending the A13 to the German border.
• 6 September – The national football team again beats Malta 1–0. This would be the last Luxembourgian international victory until 2007.
• 11 September - Raid on warehouse results in the largest bust of an illegal LSD producing factory in Europe to date.

October – December

• 13 October – The National Literature Centre opens in Mersch.
• 19 October – SES launches its fifth satellite, Astra 1E.

Deaths

• 18 January – Roger Gilson, cyclist
• 2 May – Albert Bousser, politician

Notes and References

1. Book: East . Roger . Thomas . Richard J. . Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders . 3 June 2014 . Routledge . 978-1-317-63939-8 . 359 . en.
2. Web site: Evolution du réseau autoroutier . 29 December 2008 . Administration des Ponts et Chaussées . 24 January 2008 . fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090303095145/http://www.pch.public.lu/reseau_routier/autoroutes/evolution/index.html . 3 March 2009 .