{"id":"deputies/dan-biancalana","title":"Dan Biancalana","type":"deputy","party":"LSAP","circonscription":"Circonscription Sud","html":"<p>Dan Biancalana is a member of the Chamber of Deputies for <a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Flsap\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/lsap\">LSAP</a> in the Circonscription Sud, with a mandate that started on 2023-10-24.</p>\n<h2>The financial centre and financial regulation</h2>\n<p>23 January 2025 — asking for the parallel employment-law bill 8225 to be finished quickly</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A mir wieren als LSAP frou, wann de Gesetzesprojet 8225 och geschwë géif an dréchenen Dicher sinn, fir effektiv der Gefor ze entgoen, eng nach méi spéit Transpositioun vun der Direktiv „Mobilité“ ze kréien.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>As the LSAP we would be glad if bill 8225 were wrapped up soon as well, so as to avoid the risk of transposing the mobility directive even later.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-01-23-n062\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-01-23-n062\">Sitting of 23 January 2025</a></p>\n<p>20 November 2025 — stating that Luxembourg has carried out reforms to meet international standards</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lëtzebuerg, dat muss ee soen, huet an deene leschte Joren eng ganz Rei vu wichtege Reformen ëmgesat, fir den héije Standarde gerecht ze ginn.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Luxembourg, it must be said, has carried out a whole series of important reforms in recent years in order to meet the high standards.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-11-20-n109\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-11-20-n109\">Sitting of 20 November 2025</a></p>\n<p>17 June 2026 — placing the bill within a longer process before the next evaluation</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Also, dëse Projet ass am Fong och just den Ufank vun engem och méi grousse Prozess am Kader vun der nächster Evaluatioun.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>So this bill is basically only the start of a bigger process in the run-up to the next evaluation.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-06-17-n147\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-06-17-n147\">Sitting of 17 June 2026</a></p>\n<h2>Justice, courts and prisons</h2>\n<p>30 January 2024 — stating his group's support for the bill</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ech wëll virop bekräftegen, dass mer als LSAP deen heite Gesetzesprojet matdroen, well mer op enger net korrekter Transpositioun ware vun der Kaderdecisioun fir den europäeschen Haftbefeel.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>I want to state at the outset that we as the LSAP support this bill, because we were on an incorrect transposition of the framework decision on the European arrest warrant.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-01-30-n010\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-01-30-n010\">Sitting of 30 January 2024</a></p>\n<p>2 April 2025 — describing the recommendations of the Conseil national de la justice as aimed at a more efficient and more independent judiciary</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wéi gesot, hei hu mer Recommandatiounen, wou sech Gedanke gemaach gi säitens dem Conseil national, fir eng méi effikass Justiz ze hunn, fir eng méi onofhängeg Justiz ze hunn.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>As I said, here we have recommendations in which the Conseil national has thought about how to have a more efficient justice system, a more independent justice system.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-04-02-n077\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-04-02-n077\">Sitting of 2 April 2025</a></p>\n<p>22 January 2026 — asking the minister how far the work on the implementing grand-ducal regulation has got</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dofir och hei vläicht d’Fro: Wou sidd Der do mat den Aarbechte vun deem Règlement grand-ducal drun?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>So here again the question: how far along are you with the work on that grand-ducal regulation?</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-01-22-n123\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-01-22-n123\">Sitting of 22 January 2026</a></p>\n<p>17 June 2026 — arguing for scientific monitoring from the start</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Eng Reform vun dëser Gréisst brauch vun Ufank un eng seriö wëssenschaftlech Begleedung.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>A reform of this size needs serious scientific monitoring from the very beginning.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-06-17-n147\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-06-17-n147\">Sitting of 17 June 2026</a></p>\n<h2>State budget and public finances</h2>\n<p>2 May 2024 — asking the minister why a new evaluation of municipal finances is needed</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dofir wéilt ech an deem Kontext follgend Froen un den Inneminister stellen: Firwat muss Ärer Meenung no eng Evaluatioun vun de Gemengefinanze gemaach ginn?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>So in that context I would like to put the following questions to the minister for home affairs: why, in your view, must an evaluation of municipal finances be made?</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-05-02-n023\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-05-02-n023\">Sitting of 2 May 2024</a></p>\n<p>30 April 2025 — announcing that his party will abstain on the bill</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Also, wéi gesot, mir wäerten eis bei dësem Projet als LSAP enthalen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>So, as I said, we as the LSAP will abstain on this bill.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-04-30-n080\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-04-30-n080\">Sitting of 30 April 2025</a></p>\n<h2>Police and public safety</h2>\n<p>12 March 2024 — asking the minister why the judicial authorities were not informed from the start</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wat sinn d’Grënn, dass d’Justizautoritéiten net direkt, also net vun Ufank un, vum Inneminister selwer informéiert goufe respektiv vun der Justizministesch?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>What are the reasons that the judicial authorities were not informed directly, that is from the start, by the interior minister himself or by the justice minister?</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-03-12-n014\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-03-12-n014\">Sitting of 12 March 2024</a></p>\n<p>5 December 2024 — insisting that the handling of sensitive collected data matters</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Allerdéngs ass et wichteg – an déi Diskussioun hate mer an der Kommissioun, an och déi verschidden Avisen hunn drop higewisen –, wéi ee mat sensibelen Donnéeën, déi ee sammelt, ëmgeet.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>It is however important - and we had that discussion in the committee, and the various opinions also pointed to it - how you handle the sensitive data that you collect.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-05-n050\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-05-n050\">Sitting of 5 December 2024</a></p>\n<p>16 October 2025 — stating a preference for a local police over private security firms</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An d’ëffentlech Sécherheet, wéi gesot, soll an ëffentlecher Hand sinn a bleiwen. An dofir si mir och méi en faveur vun enger lokaler Police wéi vu private Sécherheetsfirmen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>And public security, as said, should be and stay in public hands. That is why we are more in favour of a local police than of private security firms.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-10-16-n101\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-10-16-n101\">Sitting of 16 October 2025</a></p>\n<p>29 October 2025 — supporting extra resources for the human rights commission</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Duerfir, mengen ech, ass et och wichteg, dass mer och hir Aarbecht stäerken, andeems mer hinnen och deementspriechend déi néideg Ressourcë ginn.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>That is why I think it is important that we also strengthen their work by giving them the resources they need.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-10-29-n104\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-10-29-n104\">Sitting of 29 October 2025</a></p>\n<h2>Children, young people and family policy</h2>\n<p>3 March 2026 — arguing that action is needed because minors should not be placed in prison</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Et besteet also ganz kloer Handlungsbedarf, well engem Mineur seng Plaz ganz kloer net am Prisong ass a soll sinn.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>So there is very clearly a need to act, because a minor's place is very clearly not in prison and should not be.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-03-03-n128\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-03-03-n128\">Sitting of 3 March 2026</a></p>\n<p>30 April 2026 — stating the speaker's own view that youth protection is never sufficient</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An ech mengen och, mat all Respekt, am Jugendschutz mécht een am Fong ni genuch.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>And I also think, with all respect, that in youth protection one never does enough.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-04-30-n140\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-04-30-n140\">Sitting of 30 April 2026</a></p>\n<h2>Also spoke on</h2>\n<p>One recorded quote each, so these are single entries rather than timelines.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fhealth-and-care\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/health-and-care\">Health system and care</a>, 19 March 2024, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-03-19-n016\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-03-19-n016\">Sitting of 19 March 2024</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dofir ass och d’Obesitéit fir eis als LSAP eng sozial Problematik a brauch och sozial Äntwerten a sozial Usätz.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>That is why obesity is, for us in the LSAP, a social problem, and it needs social answers and social approaches.</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Ftransport-and-mobility\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/transport-and-mobility\">Transport and mobility</a>, 11 February 2025, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-02-11-n064\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-02-11-n064\">Sitting of 11 February 2025</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Also, op alle Fall geet dat, wat de Moment gemaach gëtt, an eng ganz aner Richtung wéi dat, wat Dir hei an der Motioun schreift.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>In any case, what is being done at the moment goes in a completely different direction from what you write here in the motion.</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fdigital-and-ai\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/digital-and-ai\">Digital policy and artificial intelligence</a>, 2 July 2024, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-07-02-n035\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-07-02-n035\">Sitting of 2 July 2024</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dofir ass et och wichteg, deen Equiliber ze fanne bei deene Mesüren, déi geholl ginn, dass se engersäits noutwendeg sinn, dass se appropriéiert sinn an awer och proportionéiert sinn, well ech mengen, och d’Liberté d’expression muss gewaart bleiwen, grad eebe wann och terroristesche Contenu op deenen Hosten ass.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>That is why it is important to find the balance in the measures taken, so that they are necessary, appropriate and also proportionate, because I believe freedom of expression must be preserved too, even when there is terrorist content on those hosts.</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fasylum-and-migration\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/asylum-and-migration\">Asylum, migration and borders</a>, 15 May 2024, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-05-15-n026\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-05-15-n026\">Sitting of 15 May 2024</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Awanderung ass eng Chance fir eis Gesellschaft an Europa an och hei zu Lëtzebuerg.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Immigration is an opportunity for our society in Europe and here in Luxembourg too.</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Flabour-law\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/labour-law\">Labour law and social dialogue</a>, 19 December 2023, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2023-12-19-n007\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2023-12-19-n007\">Sitting of 19 December 2023</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Et ass um Enn och um Staat, ze garantéieren, dass d’Leit op hirer Aarbecht effektiv gerecht behandelt ginn.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>In the end it is also up to the state to guarantee that people are treated fairly at work.</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fsport\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/sport\">Sport</a>, 19 March 2024, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-03-19-n016\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-03-19-n016\">Sitting of 19 March 2024</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mir haten an eisem Walprogramm als LSAP stoen, dass mer eis derfir géifen asetzen, dass physesch Aktivitéit am Alldag vun de Kanner soll an der Schoul agefouert ginn an datt Kanner all Dag och eebe Sport sollen hunn.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>In our LSAP election programme we said we would work for physical activity to be built into children's school day, and for children to have sport every day.</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fbegging-and-homelessness\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/begging-and-homelessness\">The begging ban and homelessness</a>, 14 March 2024, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-03-14-n015\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-03-14-n015\">Sitting of 14 March 2024</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Abee, wann ee konsequent ass an et wëll een d’Justizautoritéiten och stäerken an hirer Aarbecht, wou se d’Police judiciaire brauchen, dann ass ee konsequent an et gëtt een hinnen alleguerten déi Mëttelen, déi se brauchen, nieft deenen aneren, déi een nach gäre wëll astellen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Well, if you are consistent and you want to strengthen the judicial authorities in their work, where they need the judicial police, then you are consistent and you give them all the means they need, besides the others you still want to recruit.</em></p>"}