Kinda silly, ain't it ?

Luxemburg is a very important member of the European Union.
Luxemburg is one of the smallest European Countries: 2,586 sq.km.
Luxemburg has about 525,000 inhabitants.
Luxemburg has some very interesting financial laws, which attract many other Europeans, who want to hide some income from their respective Tax Departments.

Luxemburg is a Parliamentary Democracy, headed by a "Grand Duke", a constitutional Monarch.
The head of Government is Prime Minister Jean Claude Junker.

The smallest Canadian Province, Prince Edward Island, with 5,660 sq.km is more than twice the size of Luxemburg.

There are more than 10 times the number of people living in Greater Toronto than in all of Luxemburg.

But, boy, do they ever store Billions of Euros coming from all directions into their Banking Institutions.

When my daughter was very small, she and one or two of her little girl friends played "House".
That meant that they would find an out sized hat, a stole and their mothers' shoes. Then they would invite each other for "tea" in the afternoon. They used a doll sized tea pot and cups, sit down and have very "grown up" conversations. It must have been loads of fun, since they played "grown up" frequently and long.

Well, it seems that there are whole countries which play "Grown Up"

Luxemburg has not only a Parliament with Ministers and political parties, but, Get This.....
Luxemburg also has a Secret Service, spying on their own people and Goodness knows on whom else.

Now Mr. Junker is in deep trouble, because the Chief of his country's Secret Service, has spied on him and on the Grand Duke. In true "James Bond"  fashion, the Chief, with the help of a microphone embedded in his wrist watch, recorded State Secrets discussed between the Prime Minister and the Grand Duke.
It is surmised that he wanted to black mail Mr. Junker and maybe also the Grand Duke.
I am waiting for the Chief of the LSS (Luxemburg Secret Service) to fly to China and then to Russia and ask those two countries and everybody else on the Globe for Asylum. 
One thinks that the Grand Duke lives in a Castle, surrounded by a moat and with a dungeon deep in the basement. So the Chief of the LSS has every right to fear for his safety and maybe even for his life.

Spies, Spies, Spies... everywhere are spies...

Kinda silly, ain't it ?

Bertstravels thinks it's silly...