A place for conversation that spans life in Luxembourg and beyond. Each week an international guest list will reflect on the week’s news, plus a whole host of other topics: politics to pollination; education to entrepreneurship; science to singing. Luxembourg sits in the beating heart of Europe and its diverse population provides a global perspective on a number of world issues.
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A place for conversation that spans life in Luxembourg and beyond. Each week an international guest list will reflect on the week’s news, plus a whole host of other topics: politics to pollination; education to entrepreneurship; science to singing. Luxembourg sits in the beating heart of Europe and its diverse population provides a global perspective on a number of world issues.
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June 27, 2026
Luxembourg's Video Game Industry Levels Up, 27/06/2026
Fred Neuen, Annabel Schoellen, Daniel Klautsch and Monica Serban on the LVGA, indie hits, cosy science games and why everyone is secretly a gamer.<br /> <br /> Video games are now the biggest entertainment economy on the planet, bigger than music and film combined, and Luxembourg is quietly building its corner of it. I welcomed four guests who each see it differently: Fred Neuen, president of the Luxembourg Video Game Association (LVGA) and the Luxembourg Film Academy; Annabel Schoellen, Secretary of videogames.lu; indie developer Daniel Klautsch of Team Iota; and game developer and environmental economist Monica Serban. I began this interview a reluctant gamer and left convinced I had simply never noticed I was one (in a very tiny capacity).<br /> <br /> Fred founded the LVGA in 2024 on three pillars: developers, education and the events and e-sports scene. Expecting a handful of local names, he found a thriving ecosystem. Some Luxembourg studios already succeed abroad: Rooftops and Alleys has sold hundreds of thousands of units across PC, PS5 and Switch, while retro specialist Sebastien Kotzka sees his work in Japanese arcades.<br /> <br /> If Fred is the structure, Annabel is the heartbeat. Through videogames.lu she runs the GamingCafé, a free, near monthly event built around the motto "spill mat," Luxembourgish for "play with us." She was candid about the abuse women still face online, recalling comments like "go back to the kitchen" while leading raids in Guild Wars 2. Yet the room she describes is the opposite of the stereotype: wide ranging in age, increasingly female, and visibly welcoming to its queer crowd.<br /> <br /> Daniel offered the founder's view. With BTS Game graduates Julie Fies and Steven Van Dorp, he formed Team Iota and released Sacrifice For Sale on Steam, then Switch, PS5 and Xbox. His hardest lesson was that making the game is the easy part, and that zero budget marketing is the steepest climb. The breakthrough came from collaboration, not cash.<br /> <br /> On AI in coding, he offered a framing worth keeping:<br /> <br /> "Treat it as a very enthusiastic intern. They will make progress fast, but the accuracy of it will not always be there." Daniel Klautsch<br /> <br /> Monica made the case for games as a force for change. A screenwriter and lifelong gamer, she uses the cozy live sim format, in the spirit of Stardew Valley, for real scientific communication. In Scarletto Beetle and the Unseen World, built with the Museum of Natural History, the player is a ladybug learning how pollination and ecosystems work. After a Climate Futures game jam, she is now in a French German accelerator and heading to Gamescom in August.<br /> <br /> What united all four was a sense of standing at a frontier, from gamified education, with professors already using Assassin's Creed to teach history, to the harder questions of addiction and manipulative design. Fred's boldest dream is a curated, Cannes style festival for games, hosted in Luxembourg, possibly next year.<br /> <br /> "We are all pioneers right now. It's like the Wild West, something to explore." Fred Neuen His definition of a gamer is wide enough to include his own mother, who plays daily Sudoku on her phone. On paper, he admitted, she games more than he does, and I suspect the same is quietly true of many of us.<br /> <br /> Links and where to follow the guests<br /> <br /> LVGA (Luxembourg Video Game Association)<br /> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.lvga.lu">https://www.lvga.lu</a><br /> <br /> Fred Neuen, president of LVGA and the Luxembourg Film Academy<br /> Radar: <a target="_blank" href="https://thisisradar.com">https://thisisradar.com</a><br /> FDI Group: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fdi-group.eu">https://www.fdi-group.eu</a><br /> Luxembourg Film Academy: <a target="_blank" href="https://filmakademie.lu">https://filmakademie.lu</a><br /> <br /> Annabel Schoellen, Secretary of videogames.lu<br /> <a target="_blank" href="https://videogames.lu/">https://videogames.lu/</a><br /> Facebook: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/videogameslu">https://www.facebook.com/videogameslu</a><br /> <br /> Daniel Klautsch, indie game developer, Team Iota<br /> Team Iota on X: <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/TeamIotaGames">https://x.com/TeamIotaGames</a><br /> Team Iota on Bluesky: <a target="_blank" href="https://bsky.app/profile/teamiota.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/teamiota.bsky.social</a><br /> Press kit: <a target="_blank" href="https://team-iota.klautsch.lu/press/">https://team-iota.klautsch.lu/press/</a><br /> Sacrifice For Sale on Steam: <a target="_blank" href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2809090/Sacrifice_For_Sale/">https://store.steampowered.com/app/2809090/Sacrifice_For_Sale/</a><br /> <br /> Monica Serban, game developer and environmental economist<br /> LinkedIn post on the Science Center event: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-monicaserban-2a085419_climatechange-euclimatepact-biodiversityactivity-7435435012902039552-QABg">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-monicaserban-2a085419_climatechange-euclimatepact-biodiversityactivity-7435435012902039552-QABg</a>
June 20, 2026
Miami University in Luxembourg: MUDEC director Raymond Manes retires, 20/06/2026
As MUDEC's first Luxembourgish Executive Director retires after 24 years, Raymond Manes shares the love story behind Miami University in Luxembourg.<br /> <br /> For almost six decades, a slice of American university life has been quietly thriving in the Grand Duchy. The Miami University John E. Dolibois European Center, known to most simply as MUDEC, has welcomed students from Ohio to Luxembourg since 1968. This month, its first Luxembourgish Executive Director, Raymond Manes, closes a 24 year chapter as he steps into retirement. He arrived at Miami in 2002, took the helm in 2020, and steered the centre through the pandemic when American students were able to continue their semester abroad while most universities on both sides of the Atlantic had gone fully online.<br /> <br /> "For me, it's a love story of 24 years. It has been really a wonderful time at Miami. But Miami is not in Florida."<br /> <br /> That last point is the one Raymond loves to correct. Miami University sits in Oxford, Ohio, roughly halfway between Cincinnati and Dayton, and its name traces back to the Myaamia tribe, whose people were later moved to Oklahoma. The connection runs deep today: tribe members study at Miami with free tuition, and of around 150 who have graduated, 45 have come through Luxembourg. The university's Myaamia Center leads the revitalisation of the tribe's language through dictionaries, educational platforms and storytelling. <br /> <br /> Luxembourg students are also allowed to study at Miami University in Ohio, with scholarship and tuition waivers.<br /> <br /> The D in MUDEC belongs to one extraordinary man. John E. Dolibois, a Luxembourger born in 1918, who emigrated to the United States aged thirteen without speaking English, became an American citizen in 1941, and graduated from Miami University. As a US soldier he returned to Europe near the end of the war and became one of the interviewers of Nazi war criminals, first at Mondorf and later at the Nuremberg Trials. The moment that changed everything came on holiday in Venice, when a waiter relayed a phone call from "the President."<br /> <br /> "He thought it was the president of the university, his boss. He picked up the phone: 'Yes, this is John Dolibois.' 'Yes, sir, this is Ronald Reagan.'"<br /> <br /> Reagan appointed Dolibois US Ambassador to Luxembourg in 1982, the seed that grew into the centre bearing his name in 1988. Raymond knew him and his wife Winnie right up until his death in 2014, visiting John at his retirement home near Cincinnati, where a glass of Luxembourgish wine would loosen the stories, including the time he interviewed Hermann Göring in his cell. That bond between America and Luxembourg sits at the heart of the programme's founding philosophy, captured in three words: Study, Engage, Travel. The host family tradition was born of gratitude, with Luxembourg families opening their homes to young Americans as a way of saying thank you after the war, and out-of-class learning, from the military cemeteries to the museums of Diekirch and Ettelbruck, remains central.<br /> <br /> If there is a tension running through American higher education, it is that high tuition turns students, and their families, into clients. Raymond is candid about the pressure that creates, where nearly everyone expects an A, and about the parents who can make an educator's autonomy a daily negotiation.<br /> <br /> "We call them the helicopter parents, always watching, hovering; and the mowing parents, who try to clear every obstacle from their child's path."<br /> <br /> Across 24 years, the student has changed too. The year-long students who once crossed by boat, taking classes onboard during the week-long voyage, have vanished, replaced by shorter, faster, more individualised semesters. Cell phones keep students tethered to home, the humanities are quietly retreating, and AI is reshaping the classroom faster than anyone can plan for, a worry Raymond shares with University of Luxembourg Rector Jens Kreisel: nobody knows how to design a classroom for the next five years. What endures is the 13,000-strong alumni network that funds, mentors and champions the centre, and a successor, Stephanie, ready to carry it forward. Retirement, Lisa suggested, need not mean stopping, and Raymond half-promised a draft course on school administration by this time next year. After 24 years of planting a quiet flag for MUDEC, few would bet against him.<br /> <br /> Watch and listen:<br /> The Lisa Burke Show is available on RTL Today, RTL Play, RTL Today Radio (now on FM), Apple Podcasts and Spotify.<br /> <br /> <br /> MUDEC and Miami University<br /> Miami in Luxembourg overview: <a target="_blank" href="https://miamioh.edu/global-initiatives/miami-in-luxembourg/<br /> Myaamia Center: https://miamioh.edu/centersinstitutes/myaamia-center<br /> <br /> Follow MUDEC<br /> Instagram / Facebook: @mudec_luxembourg<br /> TikTok: @miamioh.luxembourg">https://miamioh.edu/global-initiatives/miami-in-luxembourg/<br /> Myaamia Center: https://miamioh.edu/centersinstitutes/myaamia-center<br /> <br /> Follow MUDEC<br /> Instagram / Facebook: @mudec_luxembourg<br /> TikTok: @miamioh.luxembourg</a><br /> LinkedIn: Miami University John E. Dolibois European Center (MUDEC) in Luxembourg
June 13, 2026
The €8.3 Trillion Question: Can Luxembourg Build the Talent to Match Its Money?, 13/06/2026
ALFI's Serge Weyland and McGill's Patrick Augustin on funds, Europe's pension time bomb, and why financial literacy may be its most urgent lesson.<br /> <br /> Luxembourg is known to many as the heart of European finance, yet the story of how it earned that title is one we rarely hear told plainly. On this episode, I sat down with two guests perfectly placed to tell it: Serge Weyland, CEO of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI), and Patrick Augustin, Associate Professor of Finance at McGill University and Director of the new McGill Luxembourg Centre for Finance. The conversation ranged from the founding milestones of the fund industry to the looming pension challenge facing the entire continent, and landed somewhere unexpectedly personal: how few of us were ever taught to handle our own money.<br /> <br /> The scale of what Luxembourg has built is genuinely difficult to picture. As Serge explained, the industry traces back nearly 40 years, to 1988, when Luxembourg became the first EU Member State to transpose a directive that let an investment fund created in one country be sold across all the others. That foresight attracted the world's major asset managers, and the result today is staggering. The fund industry now employs roughly two-thirds of the 50,000 people working in Luxembourg's financial services sector, an industry that accounts for a quarter of the country's GDP.<br /> <br /> "Luxembourg today is home to 8.3 trillion. So that's a lot of money."<br /> Serge Weyland, CEO of ALFI<br /> <br /> Serge described the European Passport as one of the great commercial successes of the bloc, and one of its quietest. Of the 25 trillion euros in funds domiciled in Europe, around 6 trillion belongs to investors outside the continent who trusted its regulatory safeguards. It is, in his words, a success story we simply do not hear often enough. For Patrick, the foundation under all of it is not capital or regulation but people. Luxembourg has long held the operational infrastructure, what some politely call the back office, but as markets shift toward private equity, tokenisation and digital assets, the bottleneck changes too.<br /> <br /> "Talent is the infrastructure of the financial industry. If you don't have good talent, you're at the risk of failing in the longer run."<br /> Patrick Augustin, McGill University<br /> <br /> That is the gap McGill has come to fill. The Centre is a joint initiative with the Ministry of Finance, the banking association ABBL and ALFI, and its flagship offering is a two-year, part-time Master of Management in Finance, taught on weekends by McGill faculty in Luxembourg. Its standout feature is that students manage a real, regulated fund through Desautels Capital Management, filing compliance, executing trades and defending their investment pitches to outside investors who can scrutinise them hard. Patrick put the case for learning by doing with a simple question: if you wanted to learn tennis or the piano, would you watch videos, or would you play? What both guests kept returning to was the ecosystem itself, the close dialogue between academia, industry and policymakers that Luxembourg's flat hierarchy makes uniquely possible.<br /> <br /> "The secret sauce is the closely knit community. When there is a need for the industry, we know we have a direct line into the legislator."<br /> Serge Weyland, CEO of ALFI<br /> <br /> The conversation then turned to the issue closest to both men's hearts: pensions, and the financial literacy that underpins them. A joint ALFI/McGill study examined how Europeans save, and the numbers are sobering. European households sit on roughly 14 trillion euros in cash and savings, around 41 to 42 percent of household savings, against just 14 percent in the United States. That cash quietly loses value to inflation year after year. The study's counterfactual was striking: if France and Germany alone reformed their pension systems along the lines of Sweden or Denmark, they could unlock an additional 10 trillion euros over time. Sweden, Serge noted, went from funded pensions worth around 12 percent of GDP twenty years ago to roughly 120 percent today, a tenfold rise. Yet none of this works without education, and education, both guests agreed, has to start far earlier than the lecture hall.<br /> <br /> "Personal finance essentials should be mandatory, bottom up, from an early age, of course in an age appropriate way."<br /> Patrick Augustin, McGill University<br /> <br /> Serge made the point personally. After 40 years in finance, he reckons that had he invested regularly from the start, he would have five or six times the money he has today, simply because no one ever taught him how. The encouraging note he ended on is that the barrier to entry has never been lower. Through tokenisation and fractional fund units, investing can now begin with 30, 40 or 50 euros a month, held in a digital wallet at a fraction of the traditional cost. The technology is still niche in Europe, though already mainstream among retail savers in parts of Asia. We agreed that crypto, stablecoins, the digital euro and tokenisation each deserve a show of their own. For now, the message from both guests was clear: Luxembourg has the capital and the regulation, and with the right talent and the right financial education, it has every chance of future-proofing both its industry and its citizens.<br /> <br /> Links and further reading<br /> <br /> McGill Master of Management in Finance, Luxembourg: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/programs/mmf/luxembourg<br /> McGill Luxembourg Centre for Finance on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/mcgillluxembourgcentreforfinance/<br /> Contact the MMF Luxembourg programme: mmfluxembourg@mcgill.ca">https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/programs/mmf/luxembourg<br /> McGill Luxembourg Centre for Finance on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/mcgillluxembourgcentreforfinance/<br /> Contact the MMF Luxembourg programme: mmfluxembourg@mcgill.ca</a><br /> Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI): <a target="_blank" href="https://www.alfi.lu">https://www.alfi.lu</a><br /> ALFI's investment in higher education: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.alfi.lu/en-gb/pages/about-us/what-we-do/investment-in-higher-education">https://www.alfi.lu/en-gb/pages/about-us/what-we-do/investment-in-higher-education</a><br /> ALFI/McGill study, Europe's productive capital gap (2025), and the ALFI Blueprint for Savings and Investments: available via <a target="_blank" href="https://www.alfi.lu">https://www.alfi.lu</a>
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