Georges Engel is a member of the Chamber of Deputies for LSAP in the Circonscription Sud, with a mandate that started on 2023-11-21.
\n23 January 2025 — stating a figure for the share of nursing time spent away from the patient
\n\n\nDo ass nach vill Loft no uewen, well haut schafft d’Infirmière zu 40 % net um Patient – zu 40 % net um Patient! – a si mécht aner Aufgaben.
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There is still a lot of room for improvement, because today the nurse spends 40% of her time not with the patient - 40% not with the patient! - and does other tasks.
\n\n18 December 2025 — setting his party’s condition for the new out-of-hospital structures
\n\n\nEt dierf net drop erauslafen, datt d’Gesondheet zu engem renge Kommerz gëtt, dass Sozialdumping geschitt oder dass op eemol kee medezinnescht Personal méi ze fannen ass, fir eis Spideeler um Lafen ze halen.
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It must not end up with health becoming pure commerce, with social dumping happening, or with no medical staff being found any more to keep our hospitals running.
\n\n14 November 2024 — calling for help so that people can insulate their homes and buy less energy-intensive appliances
\n\n\nAn ech mengen, dass mer mussen derfir suergen, dass och op deem Niveau d’Leit gehollef kréien, fir hir Haiser kënnen ze isoléieren, fir datt se och kënnen nei Apparater kafen, déi manner energieintensiv sinn, a fir dass och deene Recommandatiounen, déi ënner anerem och am Avis vun der Chambre des Salariés stoungen, Rechnung ka gedroe ginn.
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And I think we have to make sure that at that level too people get help to insulate their houses, so that they can also buy new appliances that are less energy-intensive, and so that the recommendations that were in the opinion of the Chambre des Salariés, among others, can be taken into account.
\n\n22 January 2025 — arguing the motion would reduce subsidies and photovoltaic installations
\n\n\nDo hätte mer hei op alle Fall mol kee Gewënner bei der Saach, well d’Leit manner Subsid kréien, manner Anlage géinge bauen, d’Attraktivitéit sécherlech dofir géing erofgoen.
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In any case there would be no winner in this, because people would get less subsidy, would build fewer installations, and the attractiveness would certainly go down.
\n\n18 December 2025 — criticising the measure for not being targeted enough while still backing it
\n\n\nWann een de Reseaustariff generell reduzéiert, da profitéieren natierlech och déi, déi vill verbrauchen an et sech och leeschte kënnen.
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If you reduce the network tariff across the board, then of course those who consume a lot and can afford it also benefit.
\n\n17 March 2026 — warning that the many parallel regimes make the system more complex
\n\n\nD’Multiplikatioun vu verschiddene Regimmer fir Autoconsommatioun, fir Communautéiten an Energiedeele riskéiert, d’Komplexitéit vum System ze erhéijen an zu Onsécherheeten ze féieren.
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The multiplication of different regimes for self-consumption, for communities and for energy sharing risks increasing the complexity of the system and leading to uncertainty.
\n\n20 March 2025 — asserting that the actual electricity price rise is well above the announced 30% for many households
\n\n\nHaut kann een nämlech soen: D’Präishausse vum Stroum läit fir vill Leit a Famillje wäit iwwer 30 %.
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Today one can say: the electricity price rise is far above 30% for many people and families.
\n\n14 October 2025 — tabling a motion to raise the minimum wage by 100 euros and shift taxation from labour to capital
\n\n\nEch hunn duerfir eng Motioun hei ze deposéieren, déi vun de Kolleege vun der LSAP matënnerschriwwen ass, wou et drëm geet, och de soziale Mindestloun ëm 100 Euro an d’Luucht ze setzen an och manner Besteierung vun der Aarbecht a méi Besteierung vum Kapital ze bréngen.
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I therefore have a motion to table here, co-signed by my LSAP colleagues, which is about raising the social minimum wage by 100 euros and bringing less taxation on labour and more taxation on capital.
\n\n17 March 2026 — stating that a further energy crisis is hitting household budgets, above all the worst off
\n\n\nImminent hu mer elo eng weider Energiekris, déi mer alleguer am Portmonni spieren, virun allem déi, deenen et net esou gutt geet an déi kuerzfristeg Léisunge brauchen.
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We now have an imminent further energy crisis, which we all feel in our wallets, above all those who are not doing so well and who need short-term solutions.
\n\n20 March 2025 — proposing that the government define energy poverty and transpose the definition into national law
\n\n\nAn dofir fuerdere mir d’Regierung op, eng Definitioun vun der Energieaarmut auszeschaffen a se dann an d’nationaalt Recht ze iwwerhuelen.
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And that is why we call on the government to draw up a definition of energy poverty and then to take it over into national law.
\n\n18 March 2026 — demanding that the state guarantee access to identity documents without a bank account
\n\n\nDe Staat muss och deene Leit, déi kee Bankkont hunn, eng Méiglechkeet ginn, eng Carte d’identité ze kréien, Identitéitsdokumenter ze kréien. Ech fannen, dass dat en elementaart Recht ass an dass de Staat dat och muss garantéieren.
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The state must also give people who have no bank account a way to get an identity card, to get identity documents. I find that this is a basic right and that the state must guarantee it.
\n\n7 May 2024 — stating his own view of the place of work in life
\n\n\nDir Dammen an Dir Hären, mir ass et wichteg, datt d’Leit schaffe gi fir ze liewen an net liewe fir ze schaffen.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it is important to me that people go to work in order to live and do not live in order to work.
\n\n21 January 2025 — tabling the motion that gives trade unions the exclusive role in collective bargaining
\n\n\nDuerfir deposéieren ech hei déi Motioun, wou et dann drëm geet, de Gewerkschaften dee Rôle exklusiv dann ze ginn an datt se deen och behalen.
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That is why I table this motion here, which is about giving the trade unions that exclusive role and letting them keep it.
\n\n14 October 2025 — answering the objection that a shorter working week devalues work
\n\n\nDʼAarbechtszäitverkierzung ass dofir net géint d’Leit geduecht, déi schaffen. Si ass fir d’Leit, déi schaffen, fir eng besser Liewensqualitéit a méi Gläichgewiicht tëschent Aarbecht a Privatliewen.
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The reduction of working time is therefore not meant against the people who work. It is for the people who work, for a better quality of life and more balance between work and private life.
\n\n11 February 2026 — stating that no law transposes the platform directive yet
\n\n\nMir wësse jo, datt Lëtzebuerg nach ëmmer kee Gesetz huet, fir d’Plattformdirektiv ëmzesetzen.
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We know that Luxembourg still has no law to transpose the platform directive.
\n\n2 April 2025 — doubting that money given to property developers lowers housing prices
\n\n\nBis elo si scho ganz vill Sue bei d’Promoteure gefloss a mir gesinn, datt d’Präisser net erofginn!
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A great deal of money has already gone to the developers, and we see that prices are not coming down!
\n\n8 July 2025 — arguing that film support must be judged as culture, not as a return on money
\n\n\nWien alles wëll monetiséieren, deen ass an der Konschtzeen falsch op der Plaz!
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Anyone who wants to monetise everything is in the wrong place in the arts scene!
\n\n21 January 2026 — asking that the observatory also study uncomfortable questions such as working conditions
\n\n\nMee den Observatoire soll och Froe stellen, wou d’Erkenntnisser méi kritesch kéinte sinn, wéi zum Beispill bei den Aarbechtskonditiounen.
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But the observatory should also ask questions where the findings could be more critical, for example on working conditions.
\n\n17 June 2026 — stating a principle on access to knowledge
\n\n\nDen Zougang zu Wëssen dierf net vum Wunnuert, dem Akommes oder dem sozialen Hannergrond ofhänken.
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Access to knowledge must not depend on where you live, on income or on social background.
\n\n14 November 2024 — describing the government bill on Sunday work in retail
\n\n\nDen Text gesäit vir, datt d’Salariéen am Eenzelhandel, also am Établissement de vente en détail, déi aktuell sonndes véier Stonne kënne schaffen, an Zukunft bis zu aacht Stonne solle kënne schaffen.
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The text provides that employees in retail, that is in the retail sales establishment, who can currently work four hours on Sunday, should in future be able to work up to eight hours.
\n\n23 January 2025 — announcing support for the motion and asking for an updated LISER study
\n\n\nMir op alle Fall ënnerstëtzen dës Motioun a mir wäre frou, wa mer eng aktualiséiert Etüd vum LISER hätten.
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We in any case support this motion and we would be glad to have an updated LISER study.
\n\n18 December 2025 — criticising the government’s liberalisation for resting on no demand and no impact study
\n\n\nDës Liberaliséierung, déi kënnt ouni kloer Demande vun de Konsumenten, ouni kloer Demande vun de Salariéen an ouni Impaktanalys.
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This liberalisation comes without a clear demand from consumers, without a clear demand from employees and without an impact analysis.
\n\nOne recorded quote each, so these are single entries rather than timelines.
\n\n\nDéi heite war net dobäi, an och pour cause, well se net sozial selektiv genuch ass, well se pauschal fir jiddwereen ass.
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This one was not among them, and for good reason, because it is not socially selective enough, because it is a flat measure for everybody.
\n\n\nDen Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, kuerz IPCC, huet 2022 d’Hëtzt als dee gréisste Risiko fir Europa bezeechent, dee vum Klimawandel ausgeet.
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In 2022 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC for short, described heat as the greatest risk for Europe arising from climate change.
\n\n\nAn haut stellt sech dann awer d’Fro, Madamm Ministesch, wa Verschiddener vun eisen Alliéierten d’internationaalt Recht oppe mat Féiss trëppelen, ginn déi Reegelen dann nach kloer an zu 100 % respektéiert?
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And today the question arises, Madam Minister: if several of our allies openly trample on international law, are those rules still clearly and fully respected?
\n\n\nMir verschléissen eis och hei kenger Diskussioun iwwer eng Reform, mee wann et zu enger Reform kënnt, hu mer ganz kloer Propose gemaach.
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We are not closing ourselves off from any discussion about a reform here either, but if a reform comes, we have made very clear proposals.
\n\n\nAn dofir ass dat heiten eng gutt Saach, fir sech hei op vill manner Elektroschrott ze eenegen, vill manner Verschwende vu Ressourcen an dann natierlech och vill manner Kabelkuddelmuddel.
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And so this is a good thing, agreeing here on much less electronic waste, much less waste of resources and of course much less cable muddle.
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