Globalization Is Nothing New to Luxembourgers From: The Washington Post | Date: August 25, 2000| Author: Nora Boustany | Copyright 2000 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Globalization is not big news in little Luxembourg. The small grand duchy of less than a half-million people is trilingual, as in French, German and Luxembourgish. Fifty-five percent of people in the capital, also called Luxembourg, come from 14 other European countries, and the country--two-thirds the size of Rhode Island--is inhabited by people of 100 other nationalities.

"This has been part of our life for many years. We have been global for a long time," said Luxembourg's minister ...

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