1998 in Luxembourg explained

The following lists events that happened during 1998 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Incumbents

Position	Incumbent
Grand Duke	Jean^[1]
Prime Minister	Jean-Claude Juncker
Deputy Prime Minister	Jacques Poos
President of the Chamber of Deputies	Jean Spautz
President of the Council of State	Paul Beghin
Mayor of Luxembourg City	Lydie Polfer

Events

January – March

• 30 January – Marc Fischbach and Johny Lahure resign from the government, and are replaced by Luc Frieden and Georges Wohlfart.

April – June

• 28 April – Grand Duke Jean declares his eldest son, Hereditary Grand Duke Henri, to be his Lieutenant Representative.
• 23 May – CS Grevenmacher win the Luxembourg Cup, beating FC Avenir Beggen 2–0 in the final.
• 28-29 May – NATO Foreign Ministers meet in Luxembourg City.
• 1 June – The Banque Centrale du Luxembourg is established.^[2]
• 14 June – The United States' Lance Armstrong wins the 1998 Tour de Luxembourg.

July – September

• 30 August – SES launches its eighth satellite, Astra 2A.
• 27 September – The 1998 Luxembourg Grand Prix is held: not in Luxembourg, but at the Nürburgring, in the nearby German town of Nürburg.

October – December

• 5 November – The Saint Esprit Tunnel is officially renamed the 'René Konen Tunnel' after former Democratic Party politician René Konen.
• 31 December – The exchange rate between the Luxembourgian franc and the ECU at close of trading is 40.3399. This rate is then fixed as the level at which Luxembourg would join the Euro.

Deaths

• 28 February – Elsy Jacobs, cyclist
• 30 September – Émile Krieps, politician and resistance leader

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. Book: Bank Profitability: Methodological Country Notes 2000 . 18 July 2000 . OECD Publishing . 978-92-64-18217-2 . 108 . en.