A word from Paul Schonenberg:
“I am pleased to report to you that our 31st January New Year’s reception with Prime Minister Xavier Bettel was a big success! Our most sincere thanks to Spuerkeess and LaLux for hosting and sponsoring this event! In all we hosted 250 guests including 6 Ambassadors: US Ambassador Thomas Barrett, joined by the US Deputy Chief of Mission, Micheal Konstantino, and his spouse, Shalom; Czech Ambassador, Vladimír Bärtl; Dutch Ambassador, Cees Bansema; Romanian Ambassador Livia Rusu; Polish Ambassador Piotr Wojtczak, and his daughter; and our new Japanese Ambassador,Tadahiro Matsubara.
We were likewise pleased to be joined by Stacy Cummings, Head of the NATO Supply and Procurement Agency accompanied by her husband, and a five person delegation from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Directorate for Cyber security. For those who were not able to join us, we are very pleased to offer two videos from the event: Video 1, (HERE) offers the event introduction by Spuerkeess Managing Director. Françoise Thoma, and the speech from Prime Minister Bettel . The second video (HERE) contains my closing remarks. We are likewise pleased to offer (HERE) a link to the Chronicle article covering this event and our internally AMCHAM produced gallery of photos (HERE). We sincerely thank all of our guests who have posted compliments on social media (!). Prime Minister Bettel gave a terrific speech acknowledging the importance of the common values and partnership commonly shared between the US and Luxembourg and likewise generously acknowledged the importance to Luxembourg of the International business community. In addition to the wonderful food and drinks provided by LaLux Insurance, the Goeres Group was kind enough to provide their Marcello Ice-cream cart as they had for Thanksgiving (Thanks Team Goeres for this really great Italian Ice-cream treat!).”