Joëlle Welfring is a member of the Chamber of Deputies for déi gréng in the Circonscription Sud, with a mandate that started on 2023-11-21.
\n26 June 2024 — distinguishing being informed from being able to question a text
\n\n\nDat eent ass eng Informatioun, dat anert ass wierklech eng Diskussioun a Froen, déi ee ka stellen zu prezisen Textvirlagen.
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One thing is information, the other is a real discussion with questions you can put on a precise draft text.
\n\n16 June 2026 — citing a survey figure on how represented people feel
\n\n\nLaut der POLINDEX-Etüd vun 2025 fille sech 67 % vun de Befroten net genuch am aktuelle politesche System representéiert.
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According to the 2025 POLINDEX study, 67 % of respondents do not feel sufficiently represented in the current political system.
\n\n1 February 2024 — arguing that child poverty and educational fairness cannot be debated separately
\n\n\nD’Debatten ëm Kanneraarmut a Bildungsgerechtegkeet kënnen net getrennt vunenee geféiert ginn.
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The debates on child poverty and on educational fairness cannot be held separately from each other.
\n\n12 February 2026 — stating that the Chamber is not the place to debate the number of toilets in a school
\n\n\nEch fannen net, dass et un eis heibannen ass, iwwert d’Zuel vun den Toiletten an engem Lycée ze diskutéieren.
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I do not think it is for us in here to debate the number of toilets in a secondary school.
\n\n14 December 2023 — calling the absence of a fossil fuel phase-out wording a defeat
\n\n\nDass dëst Joer nees keng konkreet Formulatioun iwwert den Ausstig aus de fossillen Energien an der finaler Decisioun steet, ass eng Defaite fir all déi, déi sech drëm beméit hunn, fir dëst als Prioritéit an en Text ze kréien, virop d’EU, mee och fir all d’Aktivisten aus der Zivillgesellschaft.
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That once again this year no concrete wording on the exit from fossil energies stands in the final decision is a defeat for all those who worked to get this into a text as a priority, above all the EU, but also for all the activists from civil society.
\n\n22 October 2024 — stating that the momentum on climate protection has to be kept up
\n\n\nHär President, Dir Dammen an Dir Hären, dës Dynamik am Beräich vum Klimaschutz muss onbedéngt weidergedriwwe ginn.
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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this momentum in the field of climate protection absolutely has to be driven on.
\n\n9 July 2025 — criticising the reduction of the aid for electric mobility
\n\n\nAn et ass och wierklech elo net de Moment, op d’Brems ze trëppelen an d’Aiden ze drosselen. Dat ass dat falscht Signal zum falschen Zäitpunkt.
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And this is really not the moment to hit the brakes and throttle back the subsidies. That is the wrong signal at the wrong time.
\n\n2 December 2025 — criticising Luxembourg's part in weakening the EU deforestation regulation and the supply chain directive
\n\n\nLëtzebuerg huet mat senger aktiver Roll beim Ofbau vum Deforestatiounsreglement a vun der Liwwerkettendirektiv hei selwer eng Partie vun den Téitsche mat verursaacht an och déi national Klimaneutralitéit faktesch no hanne verluecht.
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With its active role in dismantling the deforestation regulation and the supply chain directive, Luxembourg itself caused part of the damage and in fact pushed national climate neutrality back.
\n\n20 March 2024 — answering the ADR's case for nuclear energy
\n\n\nOch wann een an d’Atomenergie wëll investéieren, mengen ech, dass een och hei keng wierklech schnell Léisungen huet.
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Even if you want to invest in nuclear energy, I think you have no really fast solutions there either.
\n\n4 December 2024 — stating her party's support for extending the electricity price cap by one year
\n\n\nEch mengen, eis Positioun ass zimmlech kloer, dass mer derfir wären, dass dee Präisdeckel fir d’Elektreschpräisser géing integral weidergefouert ginn ëm ee Joer, d’autant plus well mer wëssen, dass 2026 d’Elektreschpräisser souwisou wäerte falen.
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I think our position is fairly clear: we would be in favour of the cap on electricity prices being carried on in full for one more year, all the more so as we know that in 2026 electricity prices will fall anyway.
\n\n22 January 2025 — stating that electricity prices must stay low to make the energy transition attractive
\n\n\nEch mengen, fir dat wierklech attraktiv ze maachen, ass et ganz wichteg, dass mer d’Stroumpräisser wierklech niddreg halen.
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I think that to make this really attractive it is very important that we keep electricity prices really low.
\n\n20 May 2026 — giving the reason for the higher heat pump subsidy asked for in the first point of her motion
\n\n\nAn dofir soe mir, dass et ganz wichteg ass, virum nächste Wanter d’Leit ze schütze virun deenen awer ganz staark schwankende fossillen Energiepräisser.
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And so we say it is very important to protect people before next winter from these strongly fluctuating fossil energy prices.
\n\n5 December 2024 — stating that strengthening climate protection and social rights makes the country more competitive
\n\n\nFir eis ass et kloer: Net de Réckbau vum Klimaschutz a vun de soziale Rechter, mee dat intelligent Stäerken dovu mécht eis méi kompetitiv.
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For us it is clear: not the roll-back of climate protection and of social rights, but the intelligent strengthening of them makes us more competitive.
\n\n29 April 2025 — criticising the government's untargeted tax cuts as failing to reach middle-class consumption
\n\n\nEiser Meenung no ass dat en Zeechen dofir, dass déi oncibléiert Steierreduktioune vun de leschte Méint net am versprachenen Ausmooss am Konsum vun der Mëttelschicht optauchen.
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In our view that is a sign that the untargeted tax cuts of the last months do not show up in middle-class consumption to the promised extent.
\n\n4 December 2025 — stating what she considers to be at stake in the motion
\n\n\nEt geet engersäits ëm de Schutz vun eise perséinlechen Daten, de Schutz vun de Rechter vun de Bierger an Europa.
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On the one hand this is about the protection of our personal data, the protection of the rights of citizens in Europe.
\n\n21 May 2026 — citing a figure on how many environmental claims on products are vague or misleading
\n\n\nLaut den Zuele vum Conseil ass méi wéi d’Hallschent vun den Ëmweltbehaaptungen op Produiten entweeder vag, täuschend oder guer net noweisbar.
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According to the Council's figures, more than half of the environmental claims on products are either vague, misleading or not provable at all.
\n\n1 February 2024 — stating her party's refusal of patents on living organisms
\n\n\nFir eis ass et kloer, dass et keng Patenter op Liewen däerf ginn!
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For us it is clear that there must be no patents on life!
\n\n20 March 2025 — arguing that consumer demand here rests on the exploitation of workers abroad
\n\n\nMir liewen awer net op enger Insel, an et ass bekannt, dass, fir d’Demande vun de Konsument/innen hei zefriddenzestellen, Leit an anere Länner, zum Deel och an der EU, ausgebeut ginn.
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But we do not live on an island, and it is known that, to satisfy consumer demand here, people in other countries, partly inside the EU too, are exploited.
\n\n11 February 2026 — questioning how well the European system works when contamination is detected only at the end of the chain
\n\n\nTrotzdeem muss ee sech d’Fro stellen iwwert d’gutt Fonctionnement vun eisem europäesche System, wann trotzdeem esou vill an Europa kann importéiert ginn a verdeelt ginn an eréischt herno ganz zum Schluss quasi vun där ganzer Chaîne detektéiert gëtt.
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Even so, you have to ask the question about how well our European system works, if so much can still be imported into Europe and distributed and is only detected right at the end of the whole chain.
\n\n30 April 2026 — proposing that a 50% food-waste reduction target by 2030 be written into law
\n\n\nMir wëlle se opfuerderen, d’Zil vun enger hallwer, also vun enger 50%eger Reduktioun bis 2030 gesetzlech ze verankeren.
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We want to call on the government to anchor the target of a 50% reduction by 2030 in law.
\n\n20 March 2025 — calling for financing models for the grid in which the state takes a part, so that investment does not hit electricity bills
\n\n\nWa mer also wëllen, dass dës Investissementer sech net kontraproduktiv op d’Stroumrechnungen an op d’Gewunnechte vun de Bierger an de Biergerinnen an an de Betriber auswierken, da musse mer eis clever Finanzéierungsméiglechkeete fir nei Netzer ginn, an deenen de Staat eng Roll ze spillen huet.
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So if we want these investments not to have a counterproductive effect on electricity bills and on the habits of citizens and businesses, we must give ourselves clever financing options for new grids, in which the state has a role to play.
\n\n17 March 2026 — citing a LISER figure on the share of people at risk of poverty
\n\n\nDe LISER huet eis et viru Kuerzem virgerechent: All fënnefte Mënsch hei am Land ass vum Aarmutsrisiko betraff.
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LISER recently calculated it for us: one in five people in this country is affected by the risk of poverty.
\n\n2 July 2024 — stating that more vegetable growing can raise water consumption
\n\n\nEt ass awer gewosst, dass zum Beispill méi Geméisbau zu méi héijem Waasserverbrauch féiere kann.
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But it is known that more vegetable growing, for example, can lead to higher water consumption.
\n\n1 April 2025 — stating the aim of her motion, that the government works for an additional protocol on the right to a healthy environment
\n\n\nLéif Kolleeginnen a Kolleegen, d’Zil vun dëser Motioun, déi ech virun zwou Wochen hei virgestallt hat, ass, d’Regierung ze invitéieren, am Kader vum Conseil de l’Europe d’Recht op eng gesond Ëmwelt, notamment mat engem zousätzleche Protokoll zur Europäescher Mënscherechtskonventioun, ze stäerken.
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Dear colleagues, the aim of this motion, which I presented here two weeks ago, is to invite the government to strengthen the right to a healthy environment within the Council of Europe, in particular with an additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights.
\n\n21 January 2026 — stating how many drinking-water protection zones were designated between 2018 and 2023
\n\n\n38 Drénkwaasserschutzzone goufen eleng zwëschent 2018 an 2023 ausgewisen, soudass um Schluss vun der viregter Regierungsperiod 80 % vun eise Quellen a Buerunge geschützt waren.
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38 drinking-water protection zones were designated between 2018 and 2023 alone, so that at the end of the previous government period 80 % of our springs and boreholes were protected.
\n\n30 April 2026 — stating the current state of surface and ground water
\n\n\nAn trotz dësen Efforten ass haut kee vun eise Waasserleef an engem gudden Zoustand an och sinn d’Hallschent vun eise Grondwaasserkierperen an engem schlechten Zoustand.
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And despite these efforts, today none of our watercourses is in good condition and half of our groundwater bodies are in bad condition.
\n\n22 January 2025 — comparing the two motions and judging the Left one more precise
\n\n\nEch fannen, déi vun deene Lénke war definitiv vill méi prezis an dofir och, fannen ech, méi effikass wéi déi heiten, wou einfach proposéiert gëtt, dat, wat elo schonn en place ass, nach ze verstäerken.
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I find the one from the Left was definitely much more precise and therefore also, I find, more effective than this one, which simply proposes to strengthen what is already in place.
\n\n15 October 2025 — stating why she tabled the resolution
\n\n\nWann een den Asaz fir d’Verteidegung vun de Mënscherechter schlechtriet, da muss hei och eng Reaktioun kommen.
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If someone talks down the commitment to defending human rights, then a reaction has to come from here.
\n\n13 February 2025 — explaining the scope of her motion
\n\n\nDéi heite Motioun geet och doriwwer eraus ëm de Bau vun neie Reakteren, och Reakteren, déi nei solle geplangt ginn.
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This motion also goes beyond that, to the building of new reactors, including reactors that are to be newly planned.
\n\n30 October 2025 — arguing that nuclear power is not profitable as a transition solution
\n\n\nKloer ass och dofir, dass d’Atomkraaft als Iwwergangsléisung net rentabel ass.
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It is therefore also clear that nuclear power is not profitable as a transition solution.
\n\n11 February 2026 — challenging the ADR's case for nuclear power on uranium supply
\n\n\nDir plädéiert awer da fir eng Atomenergie, wou ech gär wéisst, wou Der den Uran da géingt hierhuelen hei an Europa ouni Drëttlänner, wou mer dann erëm ofhängeg wieren.
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But then you plead for nuclear energy, where I would like to know where you would get the uranium here in Europe without third countries, on which we would then be dependent again.
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\n\n\nDéi si menges Wëssens leschte Freide verschéckt ginn, een un de President vum brasilianesche Parlament, een un de Senat an ee Bréif och un de President vun der COP30 mat der Opfuerderung, d’Rechter vun den indigènë Vëlker an deene jeeweilege Responsabilitéiten ze stäerken.
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To my knowledge they were sent last Friday, one to the president of the Brazilian parliament, one to the Senate and one letter also to the president of COP30, calling for the rights of indigenous peoples to be strengthened within their respective responsibilities.
\n\n\nAn dat Zweet oder dat Drëtt, wat wierklech wichteg ass, ass, dass mer domadder vläicht europäesche Léisungen eng besser Chance ginn, fir och de Maart hei ze stäerke fir eis eege Léisungen hei an Europa.
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And the second or the third thing that is really important is that we perhaps give European solutions a better chance with this, and also strengthen the market here for our own solutions in Europe.
\n\n\nAn et kann ee wierklech beim beschte Wëllen net behaapten, dass, wann een de Leit, déi op der Flucht sinn, hei am Land hëlleft, dat wierklech deem doten Zil entsprécht.
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And with the best will in the world you really cannot claim that helping people who are fleeing, here in the country, corresponds to that aim.
\n\n\nAn dofir fannen ech et ganz wichteg, dass een hei objektiv eng Kéier d’Fonctionnement analyséiert an ofklappt op méiglech Verbesserungspisten.
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And therefore I find it very important that for once the functioning is analysed objectively and examined for possible ways to improve.
\n\n\nDobäi kënnt, dass d’Regierung – och no engem Joer legislative Prozess – selwer keng Äntwerten op d’Fro huet, wat den Text an der Realitéit wäert mat sech bréngen.
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On top of that, the government itself – even after a year of legislative work – has no answers to the question of what the text will bring about in reality.
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