{"id":327,"date":"2021-10-01T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxford.lu\/?p=327"},"modified":"2025-01-03T17:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T17:52:14","slug":"tri-universities-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/2021\/10\/01\/tri-universities-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Tri-Universities Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On September 30th, the university alumni societies in Luxembourg of Oxford, Cambridge and the LSE held their much delayed, annual black tie dinner. The event was held in the Salle des Chevaliers of the romantic Ch\u00e2teau de Bourglinster, where we enjoyed a Michelin star meal and, more importantly, each other’s company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eighty five guests attended including the Minister of Finance, Pierre Gramegna and the British Ambassador, HE Fleur Thomas. The traditional speech was given by Dr  Hubertus von Morr, a former German Ambassador to Luxembourg and currently Secretary General of \u201cThe International Club La Redoute\u201d in Bonn. He spoke on \u201cThe German Elections, what happens now?\u201d mentioning the almost total absence of debate on international and European matters during the campaign. He also stressed how young voters strongly supported the FDP and the Greens, and the question mark hanging over the future of the large traditional parties, the SDP and the CDU\/CSU who each only managed to garner around 25% of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Clark, Chairman of the Oxford University Society of Luxembourg was Master of Ceremonies. Minister Gramegna toasted to HRH Grand Duke Henri and spoke of the importance of the foreign community to Luxembourg. Their presence helped significantly in promoting economic growth. HE Fleur Thomas toasted to HM Queen Elizabeth II. Martin Curwen, President of the Cambridge Society and Nigel Williams President of the LSE Alumni Association spoke briefly and thanked the Oxford University Society for undertaking the organisation of this year\u2019s event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David Clark, British Ambassador Fleur Thomas, and Minister of Finance Pierre Gramegna<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Speech by Dr. Hubertus von Morr<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

More photos are available here<\/a>, courtesy of John Speed, of the Cambridge University Society Luxembourg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On September 30th, the university alumni societies in Luxembourg of Oxford, Cambridge and the LSE held their much delayed, annual black tie dinner. The event was held in the Salle des Chevaliers of the romantic Ch\u00e2teau de Bourglinster, where we enjoyed a Michelin star meal and, more importantly, each other’s company. Eighty five guests attended … Continue reading “Tri-Universities Dinner”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}