Bionext laboratories is taking the Luxembourg government to court over what is claims is unfair competition in the large-scale testing programme. The laboratory already threatened legal action in June when the government turned the large-scale testing (LST) programme into an on-demand service. It now said the government didn’t comply with rules on calls for tender, granting emergency authorisation to Laboratoires Réunis for the first LST phase and then making it mandatory for competitors to use the Fast Tracks Diagnostics test kit to be eligible. Only Laboratoires Réunis used compatible technology,…
Read MoreDay: September 17, 2021
“Climate crisis and its consequences are happening here”
Youth For Climate Luxembourg is organising its next climate strike on Friday, 24 September. Zohra Barthelemy, who oversees the movement’s public relations and logistical support, speaks about the movement, its goals and how it is wary of being used by local politicians. Teodor Georgiev: Youth For Climate (YFC) Luxembourg has no president but only members. Why was a hierarchy not established? Zohra Barthelemy: We see ourselves as a movement and as something that’s really dynamic, and that is open. And we think that hierarchies are harmful to this. Hierarchies for…
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