As one of the smallest states in the European Union, Luxembourg will head the 25-nation bloc during the first half of 2005.
Luxembourg's administration built to govern around 460,000 people - where the prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker is also the finance minister - will over the next six months give political direction to an EU of over 450 million people.
Luxembourg has some big tasks ahead of it.
Its turn at the EU's helm is set to be dominated by money matters as it tri...
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