2001 in Luxembourg

The following lists events that happened during 2001 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

January – March

 * 19 February – Agreement of merger between Arbed, Usinor, and Aceralia to form Arcelor.
 * 23 February – Grand Duke Henri amends the grand ducal coat of arms.
 * 26 February – The district tribunal of Luxembourg City opens an investigation into the Clearstream Affair.
 * 28 March – SES Astra announces that the company will be reconstituted as SES Global (now just SES), and that the new group will buy GE Americom from GE Capital for $2.4bn of cash and $3.5bn of shares.

April – June

 * 3 May – Jean-Claude Juncker delivers his seventh State of the Nation address.
 * 15 May – André Lussi is suspended as CEO of Clearstream.
 * 24 May – FC Etzella Ettelbruck win the Luxembourg Cup, beating FC Wiltz 71 5–3 in the final.
 * 16 June – SES Astra launches its Astra 2C satellite.
 * 17 June – Jorgen Bo Petersen wins the 2001 Tour de Luxembourg, with Fassa Bortolo picking up the team title.

July – September

 * 17 July – The commune of Bettborn is renamed 'Préizerdaul'.

October – December

 * 2 October – La Voix du Luxembourg is launched as a separate newspaper, having previously been a French-language supplement of the Luxemburger Wort.
 * 1 November – Allan Simonsen replaces Paul Philipp as coach of the Luxembourg national football team.
 * 9 November – SES Global is established, with SES Astra as its subsidiary.
 * 12 November – SES Global completes its acquisition of GE Americom.
 * 16 November – The section of the A7 motorway between Schoenfels and Schieren opens.
 * 16 November – The construction of the A13 road, between Bettembourg and Schengen, is authorised.
 * 29 November – Luxembourg ratifies the Kyoto Protocol, although does not deposit it until all other EU member are ready to do so.
 * 31 December – André Lussi is dismissed as CEO of Clearstream.

Unknown date

 * Unknown – Denis Robert and Ernest Backes release the book Révélation$, describing the Clearstream Affair as the 'greatest financial scandal in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg'.

Deaths

 * 24 November – Mett Clemens, cyclist