Luxembourg and the EU This section contains information about the history of Luxembourg and the European Union, about Luxembourg, European capital and seat of EU-institutions and about the European Museum Schengen. Luxembourg and Europe, from the ECSC to the Treaty of Lisbon Luxembourg became one of the six founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), which would itself evolve to become the European Union we know today. Since then, Luxembourg has played and continues to act as a mediator and a force for ideas at the heart of the European Union, either as a Member State or through some of its leaders. But what seems obvious in 2015, was not necessarily so at other times. Read Luxembourg, European capital and seat of EU institutions A host of European institutions or related services have their seat in Luxembourg or are based in part in the Grand Duchy. But which institutions exactly? And how and why has Luxembourg become the seat of European institutions alongside Brussels and Strasbourg? Read European Museum Schengen The museum was opened in Schengen on the 13th June 2010, 25 years after the signing of the Schengen Treaty. The permanent exhibition on the history and significance of the Schengen Agreements shows visitors that the elimination of the control of persons at the internal borders put into practice one ot the four foundational European freedoms set down in the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Read
Luxembourg and Europe, from the ECSC to the Treaty of Lisbon Luxembourg became one of the six founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), which would itself evolve to become the European Union we know today. Since then, Luxembourg has played and continues to act as a mediator and a force for ideas at the heart of the European Union, either as a Member State or through some of its leaders. But what seems obvious in 2015, was not necessarily so at other times. Read
Luxembourg, European capital and seat of EU institutions A host of European institutions or related services have their seat in Luxembourg or are based in part in the Grand Duchy. But which institutions exactly? And how and why has Luxembourg become the seat of European institutions alongside Brussels and Strasbourg? Read
European Museum Schengen The museum was opened in Schengen on the 13th June 2010, 25 years after the signing of the Schengen Treaty. The permanent exhibition on the history and significance of the Schengen Agreements shows visitors that the elimination of the control of persons at the internal borders put into practice one ot the four foundational European freedoms set down in the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Read