Marc Baum is a member of the Chamber of Deputies for déi Lénk in the Circonscription Sud, with a mandate that started on 2023-10-24.
\n23 November 2023 — citing a competition authority note on developers' profit margins
\n\n\nAn ech wëll och hei nach eng Kéier un déi Nott vun der Autorité de concurrence erënneren, déi drop opmierksam gemaach huet, datt d’Gewënnmargë vun deene grousse Baupromoteure sech an deene leschten zéng Joer veraachtfacht huet, ouni datt eng eenzeg Wunneng méi gebaut ginn ass.
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And I want to recall here once more that note from the competition authority, which pointed out that the profit margins of the big property developers have increased eightfold over the last ten years, without a single extra dwelling being built.
\n\n12 June 2024 — stating that a decent salary does not buy a decent home in Luxembourg
\n\n\nEt ass onméiglech, sech zu Lëtzebuerg mat engem dezente Salaire eng anstänneg Wunneng ze leeschten.
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It is impossible in Luxembourg to afford a decent home on a decent salary.
\n\n14 May 2025 — stating that the housing situation is disastrous and the government has no plan
\n\n\nD’Situatioun vum Logement ass desastréis hei am Land an d’Regierung huet kee Plang!
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The housing situation in this country is disastrous and the government has no plan.
\n\n23 November 2023 — arguing that the seat distribution and turnout figures show a democratic deficit
\n\n\nWann eng Regierung zu Lëtzebuerg ka forméiert gi mat esou wéineg populärem Support, dann hu mer, mengen ech, en Demokratiedefizit!
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If a government in Luxembourg can be formed with so little popular support, then we have, I think, a democratic deficit!
\n\n10 October 2024 — arguing that the commission president's interview was itself an exercise of free speech
\n\n\nEt ass en Ausdrock vun der Meenungsfräiheet, datt eng Presidentin vun der Mënscherechtskommissioun hir Meenung an enger ëffentlecher Zeitung ka soen.
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It is an expression of freedom of expression that a president of the human rights commission can state her opinion in a public newspaper.
\n\n10 July 2025 — noting that the debate takes place because parliament wanted it
\n\n\nMir behalen zréck, datt mer dës Diskussioun hei féieren, well d’Parlament déi Diskussioun féiere wollt, net well d’Regierung se gefrot huet!
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We note that we are holding this discussion because parliament wanted to hold it, not because the government asked for it!
\n\n9 June 2026 — asking for the two bills to be taken off the order of the day
\n\n\nDuerfir froe mer, fir dës zwee Projet-de-loie vum Ordre du jour ze huelen, aus Respekt virun deene betraffene Leit, aus Respekt virun der parlamentarescher Demokratie an aus Respekt virun eis selwer!
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That is why we ask for these two bills to be taken off the order of the day, out of respect for the people concerned, out of respect for parliamentary democracy, and out of respect for ourselves.
\n\n23 November 2023 — concluding his criticism of the coalition's tax chapter
\n\n\nDe Fazit ass eendeiteg: Déi strukturell Ongerechtegkeeten an eisem Steiersystem ginn net ugepaakt.
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The conclusion is unambiguous: the structural injustices in our tax system are not being tackled.
\n\n12 June 2024 — criticising the refusal to change the taxation of labour and capital
\n\n\nAn dat net ze änneren, heescht, déi Superräich ze beschützen an déi kleng Leit bei d’Lisette ze loossen.
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And not changing that means protecting the super-rich and leaving ordinary people out in the cold.
\n\n19 March 2025 — reporting the cost to the state of the tax relief on private supplementary pensions
\n\n\nDe Steierverloscht fir de Staat läit awer elo scho bei ronn 43 Milliounen Euro.
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The tax loss for the state already amounts to around 43 million euros.
\n\n28 April 2026 — preferring a price cap to the excise cut proposed in the motion
\n\n\nMir denken, wéi anerer och, datt dat doten een Element vun enger Diskussioun ass, déi ee sécherlech kann an der Tripartitt féieren. Eng Deckelung ass méi interessant.
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We think, like others, that this is one element of a discussion that can certainly be held in the tripartite. A cap is more interesting.
\n\n1 February 2024 — citing the national education report to say the school system worsens social inequality
\n\n\nAn och dat weist jo eisen nationale Bildungsrapport, datt eise Schoulsystem déi sozial Inegalitéiten eeben net ausgläicht, mee tendenziell esouguer nach verschlëmmert.
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And our national education report shows this too: our school system does not balance out social inequalities, but tends even to make them worse.
\n\n12 February 2026 — calling on the government to keep the individual cubicles
\n\n\nDuerfir, wannechgelift, haalt dach dorunner fest, un deenen individualiséierte Kabinnen!
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Therefore, please, do hold on to those individualised cubicles!
\n\n23 November 2023 — arguing the programme pushes on with privatising the public health system
\n\n\nWat dëse Programm bei der Sécurité sociale undeit, zitt en am Kapitel Santé duerch: D’Privatiséierung vun eisem ëffentlech finanzéierten universelle Gesondheetssystem gëtt weider verstäerkt virugedriwwen.
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What this programme hints at on social security, it carries through in the health chapter: the privatisation of our publicly financed universal health system is being pushed further.
\n\n11 July 2024 — stating the extra health insurance income he calculates from lifting the contribution ceiling
\n\n\nDéi méi Recetten, déi wieren an Héicht pro Joer vun 250 Milliounen Euro.
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Those extra receipts would amount to 250 million euros a year.
\n\n18 November 2025 — criticising the lack of a binding framework and a central structure in mental-health care
\n\n\nEt feelt wierklech un engem verbindleche Kader, enger zentraler Struktur, déi déi verschidden Acteuren zesummeféiert.
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What is really missing is a binding framework, a central structure that brings the various actors together.
\n\n22 January 2026 — stating that control mechanisms failed in the reported case of unnecessary operations
\n\n\nEch mengen, mir stelle fest, datt mer strukturell Fragilitéiten hunn, datt eis Kontrollmechanismen net funktionéieren, wann et, esou wéi ech et zumindest aus der Press weess, huet dozou komme missen, datt bis zu 15 Leit dovunner betraff waren.
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I think we can see that we have structural weaknesses, that our control mechanisms do not work, if, as far as I know from the press, it had to come to up to 15 people being affected.
\n\n23 November 2023 — warning against deepening the state's dependence on the financial centre
\n\n\nDës Ofhängegkeet weider ze forcéieren, ass net nohalteg an ass net responsabel!
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To force this dependence further is not sustainable and not responsible!
\n\n23 January 2025 — announcing that his group will abstain instead of voting for the bill
\n\n\nEch wëll déi allgemeng Euphorie net briechen, mee mir wäerten dëse Projet an där doter Form net matstëmmen, mee eis enthalen.
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I do not want to break the general euphoria, but we will not vote for this bill in this form; we will abstain.
\n\n20 November 2025 — citing the Caritas affair as confirmation of the shortage of financial crime investigators
\n\n\nBei der Caritas-Affär hu mer dat méi wéi eng Kéier vum Parquet och bestätegt kritt.
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In the Caritas affair we had that confirmed to us more than once by the public prosecutor.
\n\n28 April 2026 — giving the reasons for refusing consent to the bill
\n\n\nAn d’Gefor vun Abusen ass an eisen Aen ze grouss. A virun allem ännert et näischt um Problem selwer, nämlech der Dauer, fir Bankkonte kënnen opzemaachen.
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And in our eyes the risk of abuse is too great. And above all it changes nothing about the problem itself, namely the time it takes to open bank accounts.
\n\n22 January 2025 — opposing the rise in military spending and calling for de-escalation instead
\n\n\nEch sinn net domat d’accord, datt mer all Joer Honnerte Milliounen a Krichsmaterial investéieren, fir eisen Obolus un d’NATO ze entriichten.
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I do not agree that we invest hundreds of millions in war material every year to pay our dues to NATO.
\n\n15 May 2025 — stating his party's principle on profit from arms production
\n\n\nFir eis als Lénk ass et eng grondsätzlech Fro, datt mat der Produktioun vun déidleche Waffe keng Profitter däerf gemaach ginn.
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For us as déi Lénk it is a matter of principle that no profits may be made from the production of lethal weapons.
\n\n9 July 2025 — arguing that the 5 % target goes beyond deterrence
\n\n\nMat 5 % si mer net méi am Zenario vun enger effikasser Ofschreckung, mee an der Virbereedung op en drëtte Weltkrich!
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With 5 % we are no longer in the scenario of effective deterrence, but in the preparation for a third world war!
\n\n21 January 2026 — arguing that every arms build-up provokes a counter build-up
\n\n\nAll Oprëschtung provozéiert Géigenoprëschtung an um Enn verléiert jiddwereen.
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Every arms build-up provokes a counter build-up and in the end everyone loses.
\n\n2 July 2024 — criticising 20 years of European and national anti-terror legislation as ineffective and open to authoritarian abuse
\n\n\nDéi ganz Antiterrorgesetzgeebung, déi mer an deene leschten 20 Joer op europäeschem an um nationalen Niveau entwéckelt hunn, huet net derzou gefouert, datt d’terroristesch Gefor méi kleng ginn ass, mee huet de Boulevard ganz grouss opgemaach fir autoritär Deriven.
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The whole anti-terror legislation that we have developed at European and national level over the last 20 years has not made the terrorist danger smaller, but has opened the boulevard wide for authoritarian drifts.
\n\n2 April 2025 — warning against using the Digital Services Act as a bargaining chip in tariff negotiations
\n\n\nDofir warne mer ausdrécklech do virdrunner, den Digital Services Act als Monnaie d’échange ze benotzen, fir zum Beispill eventuell Zolltariffer ofzeschwächen.
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We therefore warn explicitly against using the Digital Services Act as a bargaining chip, for example to soften possible customs tariffs.
\n\n25 June 2025 — warning that combining weapons production and artificial intelligence is dangerous
\n\n\nAn ech muss Iech do soen, datt fir eis awer déi Kombinatioun vu Waffeproduktioun a Kënschtlecher Intelligenz eng ganz geféierlech Kombinatioun ass, well mer do ganz séier bei autonome Waffesystemer sinn.
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I have to tell you that for us the combination of weapons production and artificial intelligence is a very dangerous combination, because it takes us very quickly to autonomous weapons systems.
\n\n19 March 2025 — defending the existing pay-as-you-go first pillar against proposals to strengthen funded pillars
\n\n\nWell de lëtzebuergesche Pensiounssystem, dee mer wärend Joerzéngten opgebaut hunn, deen ass robust, performant a staark.
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Because the Luxembourg pension system, which we built up over decades, is robust, efficient and strong.
\n\n14 May 2025 — stating that a longer working life does nothing for the pension system's financial viability
\n\n\nÉischtens: D’Verlängerung vun der Liewensaarbechtszäit bréngt fir déi finanziell Viabilitéit vum Pensiounssystem guer näischt.
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First: extending working life brings nothing at all for the financial viability of the pension system.
\n\n16 June 2026 — criticising the cut-off date of the pension reform as unfair
\n\n\nAll déi Leit, déi do virdrun am ëffentlechen Déngscht geschafft hunn, mussen net déi aacht Méint méi laang schaffe goen. An all déi Leit, déi am Mäerz 1999 agestallt gi sinn, mussen elo aacht Méint méi laang schaffe goen.
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All the people who worked in the public service before that date do not have to work the eight months longer. And all the people hired in March 1999 now have to work eight months longer.
\n\n25 June 2025 — arguing the motion misses the sector's real problems
\n\n\nEch mengen, d’Erofsetze vun der TVA op alkoholeschem Gedrénks géif dem Secteur wierklech net hëllefen, well seng Problemer sinn anerer.
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I think lowering the VAT on alcoholic drinks would really not help the sector, because its problems are different ones.
\n\n2 December 2025 — attacking Amazon as a company hostile to workers and trade unions
\n\n\nAmazon ass eng aarbechterfeindlech Entreprise, déi wéi keng aner géint Gewerkschafte virgeet an d’Rechter vun den Aarbechter ënnergrieft.
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Amazon is a company hostile to workers, which acts against trade unions like no other and undermines workers' rights.
\n\n10 February 2026 — citing the number of construction jobs lost over four years
\n\n\nAn der Beäntwerung vun enger parlamentarescher Fro vun de Kolleegen Di Bartolomeo an Engel ass ervirgaangen, datt an deene leschte véier Joer 4.500 Plazen an deem Secteur verluer gaange sinn.
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The answer to a parliamentary question from colleagues Di Bartolomeo and Engel showed that 4,500 jobs were lost in that sector over the last four years.
\n\n5 March 2026 — describing the steel tripartite as the backbone of the Luxembourg social model
\n\n\nSi ass d’Réckgrat vum Lëtzebuerger Sozialmodell, deen eis schonn duerch vill Krise gefouert huet, ugefaange mat der grousser Stolkris an de 70er-Joren.
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It is the backbone of the Luxembourg social model, which has already carried us through many crises, starting with the great steel crisis in the 1970s.
\n\n16 May 2024 — noting the rapporteur's undertaking that the opinions will be taken up in a future bill
\n\n\nD’Madamm Rapportrice huet virdru gesot, datt all deene Bemierkungen, déi an den Avise gemaach gi sinn, an engem zukünftege Projet soll Rechnung gedroe ginn.
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The rapporteur said earlier that all the remarks made in the opinions should be taken into account in a future bill.
\n\n10 December 2024 — stating that victims are punished more than perpetrators
\n\n\nEgal wéi, d’Affer bleiwen ëmmer méi gestrooft wéi d’Auteuren, souguer wa se iwwerfouert ginn.
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Either way, the victims always remain more punished than the perpetrators, even when the perpetrators are convicted.
\n\n18 March 2025 — criticising the creation of the posts before the remit of that management committee is defined
\n\n\nEch fannen et nämlech effektiv schwiereg, hei Posten ze kreéieren, wann d’Essenz vun deem, wou deen Direktiounskommitee dann aktiv soll sinn, eigentlech net definéiert ass.
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I find it genuinely difficult to create posts here when the essence of what that management committee is to be active in is actually not defined.
\n\n4 December 2025 — warning about the risk of a gradual slide towards a surveillance state
\n\n\nMee et muss een ëmmer de Risiko am Hannerkapp halen, datt ee kéint lues a lues, Schrëtt fir Schrëtt, an en Iwwerwaachungsstaat eraschlidderen.
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But you must always keep in the back of your mind the risk that you could slide, slowly, step by step, into a surveillance state.
\n\n15 May 2024 — stating his own position on the scope of immigration
\n\n\nEuropa brauch Awanderung, an net just am Beräich vun den héich qualifizéierte Persounen.
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Europe needs immigration, and not only in the field of highly qualified people.
\n\n16 October 2025 — calling the change a win-win in the interest of society
\n\n\nAlso dat hei ka wierklech eng Win-win-Situatioun sinn am Interêt vun eiser Gesellschaft.
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So this can really be a win-win situation in the interest of our society.
\n\n5 March 2026 — arguing that the state must follow up the shortcomings the children's rights body reported
\n\n\nWann den OKaJu an enger rezenter Publikatioun op Mëssstänn opmierksam mécht, da misst et dem Staat seng alleréischt Aufgab a Verflichtung sinn, deem nozegoen.
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When the OKaJu draws attention to shortcomings in a recent publication, it should be the state's very first task and duty to follow that up.
\n\n9 June 2026 — stating that immigration contributed to the country's wealth
\n\n\nD’Immigratioun huet entscheedend zum Wuelstand vun eisem Land bäigedroen.
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Immigration has contributed decisively to the prosperity of our country.
\n\n11 December 2024 — proposing that Luxembourg return part of the wealth created by cross-border workers to their home regions and communes
\n\n\nDowéinst ass et fir eis och evident, dass Lëtzebuerg en Deel vun deem Räichtum, deen d’Frontaliere bei eis schafen, zréckgëtt un d’Regiounen an un d’Gemengen, an deenen déi Leit schaffen a wunnen.
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That is why it is also obvious to us that Luxembourg should give back part of the wealth that cross-border workers create here to the regions and communes where those people work and live.
\n\n14 May 2025 — stating who the speaker thinks will gain from the Mercosur agreement
\n\n\nVum Mercosur-Ofkommes wäerte virun allem déi déck Agrarmultinationalle profitéieren.
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It is above all the big agricultural multinationals that will profit from the Mercosur agreement.
\n\n28 February 2024 — asking the labour minister whether a full-time job on the minimum wage must allow a decent life free of poverty
\n\n\nAss den Aarbechtsminister der Meenung, dass eng voll Tâche mam Mindestloun en dezent Liewen, fräi vun Aarmut, muss erméiglechen?
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Is the labour minister of the opinion that a full-time job on the minimum wage must make a decent life, free of poverty, possible?
\n\n12 December 2024 — stating a figure on in-work poverty in Luxembourg
\n\n\nAn dat féiert dozou, datt mir Lëtzebuerger dat Land sinn, wou den Aarmutsrisiko bei Leit, déi schaffen, am héchsten a ganz Europa ass: 14,7 % – also bal 15 % vun alle Salariéen, déi schaffen – sinn dem Aarmutsrisiko ausgesat!
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And that leads to us Luxembourgers being the country with the highest poverty risk among working people in all of Europe: 14.7 % - almost 15 % of all employees in work - are exposed to the poverty risk.
\n\n18 November 2025 — asking the minister whether the directive's reference values should simply be applied
\n\n\nAn drëttens: Mengt de Minister net vläicht awer, datt et sënnvoll wier, einfach d’europäesch Direktiv ëmzesetze mat deene genannten Zila Referenzwäerter, fir esou Lëtzebuerg och erëm attraktiv ze maache fir déi Leit, déi schaffen?
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And third: does the minister not think after all that it would make sense simply to transpose the European directive with the target and reference values named, so as to make Luxembourg attractive again for people who work?
\n\n9 June 2026 — disputing the government's figure for the minimum wage rise
\n\n\nDuerfir vun 200 Euro ze schwätzen, ass zumindest gemogelt.
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To speak of 200 euros for that is, to say the least, a fiddle.
\n\n12 June 2024 — stating that the minimum wage is not enough to live on without social aid
\n\n\nDe Mindestloun hei am Land geet net duer, fir ouni Sozialhëllef iwwert d’Ronnen ze kommen.
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The minimum wage in this country is not enough to get by without social assistance.
\n\n4 December 2024 — stating that REVIS and RPGH amounts remain below the decent-living and poverty thresholds
\n\n\nEch wëll awer drun erënneren, datt de Montant vum REVIS respektiv vum RPGH nach ëmmer ënner all deem läit, wat soit de Statec gerechent huet, wat d’Vie décente ugeet, soit d’Seuil-de-pauvretéen.
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I want to recall, though, that the amount of the REVIS and of the RPGH still lies below everything that Statec has calculated for a decent living, and below the poverty thresholds.
\n\n14 May 2025 — recalling the Prime Minister's earlier announcement of a national anti-poverty plan
\n\n\nD’lescht Joer sot de Premier op dëser Plaz, et géif intensiv un engem nationalen Aktiounsplang géint d’Aarmut geschafft ginn, well et eng absolutt Prioritéit vun dëser Regierung wier.
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Last year the Prime Minister said in this place that intensive work was being done on a national action plan against poverty, because it was an absolute priority of this government.
\n\n9 July 2025 — arguing that fighting in-work poverty is the best way to fight old-age poverty
\n\n\nDat heescht, de beschte Kampf géint Altersaarmut ass de Kampf géint de Phenomeen vun de Working Poor.
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That means the best fight against old-age poverty is the fight against the phenomenon of the working poor.
\n\n23 November 2023 — attacking the announced annualisation of working time
\n\n\nMat der Annualisatioun vun de Schaffstonne kritt de Patron d’Méiglechkeet, d’Aarbecht vun de Salariéen no sengen eegene Wënsch ze flexibiliséieren.
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With the annualisation of working hours the employer gets the possibility to flexibilise employees' work according to his own wishes.
\n\n22 October 2024 — describing what the motion is meant to achieve
\n\n\nAn dës Motioun probéiert, hei Kloerheet ze schafen: datt d’Parlament net nëmmen, Madamm Weydert, déi historesch Verdéngschter vun de Gewerkschaften unerkennt, mee och déi aktuell Verdéngschter vun eisem Tripartitt-Modell a vun den national representative Gewerkschaften.
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And this motion tries to create clarity here: that parliament recognises not only the historic merits of the unions, Mrs Weydert, but also the current merits of our tripartite model and of the nationally representative unions.
\n\n29 April 2025 — citing the Quality of Work Index on job quality in the sector
\n\n\nEt ass am Secteur vun der Restauratioun a vun den Hotellen, wou déi qualitativ schlechtsten Aarbechtsplazen ugebuede ginn.
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It is in the restaurant and hotel sector that the poorest quality jobs are offered.
\n\n14 October 2025 — criticising the extension of Sunday work
\n\n\nEt ass keng Héichschätzung vum Wäert vun der Aarbecht, wann de Sonndeg zu engem ëmmer méi normalen Aarbechtsdag gëtt.
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It is no appreciation of the value of work when Sunday becomes an ever more normal working day.
\n\n2 July 2024 — criticising the interior minister for refusing any sanction against the alderman
\n\n\nAn déi lescht politesch Instanz, den Inneminister, huet an enger Äntwert op eng parlamentaresch Fro vu mir refuséiert, iergendeng Form vu Sanktioun géint dee Schäffen auszeschwätzen.
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And the last political authority, the interior minister, refused in an answer to a parliamentary question of mine to pronounce any form of sanction against that alderman.
\n\n2 July 2024 — asking whether the municipal law on appointing and removing aldermen still complies with international law
\n\n\nMengt den Inneminister, datt déi aktuell Gemengegesetzgeebungen a Bezuch op d’Nominatioun an d’Revokatioun vu Memberen aus dem Schäfferot nach internationalem Recht entspriechen?
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Does the interior minister believe that the current municipal legislation on the appointment and removal of members of the board of aldermen still complies with international law?
\n\n30 October 2025 — stating that the opposition asked for the item to be taken off the agenda to protect social peace
\n\n\nDuerfir hu mer och alleguerten – oder d’Oppositiounsparteien – gefrot, datt dee Punkt vum Ordre du jour sollt erofgeholl ginn, fir de soziale Fridden ze garantéieren.
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That is why we all, or the opposition parties, asked for that item to be taken off the agenda, in order to guarantee social peace.
\n\n30 April 2025 — saying the text removes an existing injustice and announcing support
\n\n\nEch mengen awer, datt dat heiten zumindest eng bestoend Ongerechtegkeet aus dem Wee raumt, an duerfir stëmme mer dat heite mat.
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I do think, though, that this one at least removes an existing injustice, and that is why we vote for it.
\n\n15 May 2025 — stating a figure for past EU defence spending
\n\n\nAn deene leschten zéng Joer, tëscht 2015 an 2024, hunn déi aktuell 27 EU-Memberstaaten zesummegerechent 2.420 Milliarden an d’Defense investéiert.
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In the last ten years, between 2015 and 2024, the current 27 EU member states together invested 2,420 billion in defence.
\n\n9 July 2025 — predicting that the summit decision will bring austerity across Europe
\n\n\nWell et heescht fir Europa jo am Endeffekt näischt anescht, wéi datt an deenen nächste Joren eng zolidd Austeritéitswell iwwert de Kontinent rulle wäert.
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Because in the end it means nothing else for Europe than that in the coming years a solid wave of austerity will roll across the continent.
\n\n9 June 2026 — attacking the cost as the price of the government's record
\n\n\nEng hallef Milliard kascht also d’Zesummesetze vun de Schierbele vun zwee an engem hallwe Joer CEO-Politick.
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So half a billion is the cost of picking up the pieces of two and a half years of CEO politics.
\n\n29 October 2025 — criticising the vagueness of the legal definition of terrorism underpinning bill 8489
\n\n\nDe Begrëff vum Terrorismus ass een, deen – an dorënner leiden eis Gesetzgeebungen – a ganz Europa zënter 20 Joer immens schwammeg an immens vag ass, och zu Lëtzebuerg.
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The concept of terrorism is one that, and our legislation suffers from this, has been extremely woolly and extremely vague across Europe for 20 years, including in Luxembourg.
\n\n29 October 2025 — answering the argument that the motion comes too early
\n\n\nDuerfir, wann dat hei ze verfréit ass, mee dann ass et och ze verfréit, dat Gesetz ze stëmmen!
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So if this is too early, then it is also too early to vote that law!
\n\n10 October 2024 — rejecting the ADR speaker's equation of equality with levelling down
\n\n\nVirun allem, well Gläichstellung ass de Contraire vu Gläichmaacherei.
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Above all, because equality is the opposite of levelling everyone down.
\n\n22 January 2025 — stating the demand of the speaker's own motion
\n\n\nDat, wat ech froen, ass, d’Perspektiv opzemaachen, datt d’Theema haislech Gewalt an de Curriculum vun de Schoulen opgeholl gëtt.
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What I ask is to open the perspective that the subject of domestic violence is taken into the curriculum of the schools.
\n\n15 October 2025 — rejecting the argument that opinions can no longer be voiced
\n\n\nDat wat ech awer net wëll gëlle loossen, dat ass deen Discours, et kéint ee seng Meenung net méi soen.
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What I will not accept, though, is the line that one can no longer say one's opinion.
\n\n16 June 2026 — stating what the second constitutional vote does
\n\n\nMir consacréieren an engem zweete konstitutionelle Vott d’Fräiheet ofzedreiwen an eiser Verfassung. Mir ginn domadder dem Selbstbestëmmungsrecht iwwert den eegene Kierper an de reproduktive Rechter vun der Fra Verfassungsrang.
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In a second constitutional vote we are enshrining the freedom to have an abortion in our Constitution. We thereby give constitutional rank to the right to decide over one's own body and to the reproductive rights of women.
\n\n2 April 2025 — attacking the new cost rule as public money that secures developers' profit margins
\n\n\nDat ass am Moment net esou, an dat hei ass eng weider Mesür, wou Suen, ëffentlech Suen, geholl ginn, fir d’Gewënnmargë vun de Promoteuren ze assuréieren.
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That is not the case at the moment, and this is a further measure where money, public money, is used to secure the profit margins of the developers.
\n\n18 November 2025 — arguing that public funding is indispensable for a European film industry
\n\n\nDuerfir muss ee soen, wann ee sech déi ganz europäesch Filmindustrie ukuckt: Ouni staatlech Hëllef géif et iwwerhaapt keng europäesch Filmindustrie ginn!
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So one has to say, if you look at the whole European film industry: without state aid there would be no European film industry at all!
\n\n19 December 2023 — condemning the ban as punishing extreme poverty
\n\n\nHeeschen ass näischt anescht wéi den Ausdrock vun extreemer Prekaritéit, vun extreemer Nout a vun extreemer Aarmut. Heeschen ze verbidde bedeit, déi Leit, déi guer näischt hunn, nach weider ze kujenéieren.
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Begging is nothing other than the expression of extreme precarity, extreme need and extreme poverty. To ban begging means tormenting further the people who have nothing at all.
\n\n14 March 2024 — attacking the majority for banning simple begging in the municipal rules in order to fight organised begging
\n\n\nDir kënnt nach ëmmer kengem Mënsch erklären, firwat Der d’Mendicité simple an Äert Gemengereglement eranhuelt, fir domadder d’Mendicité organisée wëllen ze bekämpfen.
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You still cannot explain to anybody why you put simple begging into your municipal regulation in order to fight organised begging with it.
\n\nOne recorded quote each, so these are single entries rather than timelines.
\n\n\nDe Motor vum Rietsextremismus sinn déi sozial Inegalitéiten, d’Ëmverdeelung vum Räichtum vun ënnen no uewen an déi relativ Verschlechterung vun de Liewensbedingungen.
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The motor of far-right extremism is social inequality, the redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top, and the relative worsening of living conditions.
\n\n\nAlso ech mengen, dat ass keng Politick, déi d’Leit mathëlt, mee eng Spuermesür, déi net am Interêt vun der Transitioun ass.
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I think that is not a policy that brings people along, but a savings measure that is not in the interest of the transition.
\n\n\nAn zënter dem Januar ass dat elo anescht, elo sinn et privat Linnen, déi fueren, Buschaufferen, déi ënner anere Salariatskonditiounen do schaffen.
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And since January that is now different, now it is private lines that run, bus drivers who work there under different employment conditions.
\n\n\nD’Energiepräisser, notamment de Stroum, gi massiv an d’Luucht an d’Subventioun fir Fotovoltaik, ma déi gëtt gekierzt.
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Energy prices, electricity in particular, are going up massively, and the subsidy for photovoltaics is being cut.
\n\n\nDuerfir ass de Saz: „D’Zuel vun deenen, déi Lëtzebuergesch schwätzen“, objektiv falsch, well dat net aus dëser Etüd ervirgeet.
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That is why the phrase 'the number of those who speak Luxembourgish' is objectively wrong, because that does not follow from this study.
\n\n\nEch perséinlech sinn net grad esou chaud, wat deen heiten Text ugeet, ech gesinn awer d’Argumentatioun an, wat d’Erophiewe vun de Seuilen ugeet.
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Personally I am not very keen on this text, but I do see the argument as far as raising the thresholds is concerned.
\n\n\nSonndes am Commerce méi wéi véier Stonne schaffen ouni Kollektivvertrag gëtt eng Verschlechterung fir déi Leit, déi dovunner betraff sinn.
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Working more than four hours in retail on a Sunday without a collective agreement is a worsening for the people affected.
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