Luxembourg argues that German tax rates are too high, so that savers are tempted abroad a logic that the German government, which wants to cut its marginal tax rates, seems to have partly accepted.

ECONOMIST: European Union

The S.S. wants to use Kremer to convince Luxembourg Catholics that they should support the German Occupation.

NEWYORKER: The Ninth Day

German authorities suspect a batch of lasagne sent from Luxembourg to a retailer in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

BBC: minced beef - file pic

Tax is a touchy issue for Luxembourg, which lures huge amounts of German savings by not charging withholding tax on bank interest.

ECONOMIST: European Union

Somebody leaked news to Der Spiegel, a German news magazine, of a secret meeting of finance ministers in Luxembourg on May 6th to discuss Greece.

ECONOMIST: Germany continues to dither over how best to rescue the euro

When German and Italy teamed up with their former enemies France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the British Prime Minister Clement Attlee is said to have dismissed the new union as a group of six nations, "four of whom we had to rescue from the other two".

BBC: Part Three - France and the World

The 10-year German benchmark was pressured lower to 2.42% after an EU report from the Luxembourg statistical office showed a slowdown in producer price inflation to an annual pace of 5.9% in June.

FORBES: Growth Fears Send Bond Yields To Nine-Month Lows