Des centaines de millions d'anciens francs luxembourgeois leur ont été payés rétroactivement.
Hundreds of millions of Luxembourg francs, the currency in use at that time, were paid out to them retrospectively.
Deuxième exemple, un citoyen m'écrit pour me signaler que sur un virement de 268 francs luxembourgeois vers l'Allemagne, il a payé 200 francs luxembourgeois de frais bancaires.
By way of a second example, a member of the public wrote to me reporting that he had paid LUF 200 in bank charges on a transfer of LUF 268 to Germany.
Dès le 1er janvier 1999, la poste luxembourgeoise a grevé chaque virement transfrontalier, je dis bien chaque virement transfrontalier, d'une taxe de 80 francs luxembourgeois, alors que jusqu'ici, c'était gratuit.
Since 1 January 1999, the Luxembourg post office has imposed a charge on every cross-border transfer - let there be no mistake, on every single cross-border transfer - amounting to a levy of LUF 80, whereas previously it had been free.