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Like his tiny country, Xavier Bettel has learned to pick his shots
In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, the Luxembourg prime minister explains his vision of a ‘country of niches.’
LUXEMBOURG CITY — When your country has fewer inhabitants than a medium-sized city, the global spotlight doesn’t shine your way very often — and when it does, you have to make it count.
- Jacopo Barigazzi and Florian Eder
- Politico
That is exactly what Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel did this week when he was left standing alone in front of a crowd of journalists, like a groom abandoned at the altar.
His U.K. opposite number Boris Johnson had bailed out of a planned press conference because of a…