Re: LUXEMBOURG 2018
The argument that
is a "micro-state", while actually having a larger population than
and
and not much less than
, is a bit, well, not too accurate but also a tricky one.
If we actually take a look at the population,
functions in a similar way as
,
,
and
in the sense that a healthy portion of the official population are de facto not "actively" living in
, they are merely registered there as a way to avoid taxes in their respective home countries,
in particular is strategically very well placed in the middle of Benelux region, France and Germany, having rich people from all those countries register themselves in
while work and maybe even live in one of the other countries. It's hard to say how large portion of the Luxembourgese population that consists of these "faux" citizens, but I think it's big enough that
indeed would struggle similarly as the other micro-states and can't be compared to mentioned, on paper, smaller countries. Looking back at their history in ESC, how many of their entrants were actually even from
? As far as I recall, majority were called in from
and
.