Sven Clement is a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Piraten in the Circonscription Centre, with a mandate that started on 2023-10-24.
\n23 November 2023 — arguing the housing shortage is a credit problem, not a demand problem
\n\n\nDe Problem läit net bei der Demande – se läit beim Geld!
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The problem does not lie with demand. It lies with the money!
\n\n12 June 2024 — asking why the government is not as active in other crises as it is in helping property owners and developers
\n\n\nWell et kann ee sech d’Fro stellen: Wou bleift den Aktivismus vun der Regierung, dee se dobäi un den Dag leet, fir de Millionären, de Multiproprietären, de Promoteuren ze hëllefen, an anere Krisesituatiounen?
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One can ask the question: where is the activism the government shows in helping millionaires, multiple owners and developers when it comes to other crisis situations?
\n\n14 May 2025 — stating that the average wage earner still cannot afford a home
\n\n\nD’Präisser bleiwen héich an den Duerchschnëttssalarié ka sech nach ëmmer keng Wunneng zu Lëtzebuerg leeschten.
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Prices stay high and the average wage earner still cannot afford a home in Luxembourg.
\n\n20 May 2026 — arguing that unaffordable housing drives essential workers out of the country
\n\n\nWann eis Keessjären, eis Krankefleegerinnen, eis Polizisten d’Land verloossen, well se hei net méi wunne kënnen, da verléiere mer net just d’Wunnengen, mee mer verléieren d’Mënschen, op deenen eist Land opbaut.
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If our cashiers, our nurses and our police officers leave the country because they can no longer live here, then we lose not only the dwellings, but we lose the people our country is built on.
\n\n23 November 2023 — stating how his group will vote on the resolution to open committee meetings to the public
\n\n\nMee doriwwer eraus wëll ech just feststellen: Mir stëmmen déi Resolutioun mat, well mer se schonn eng Kéier matgestëmmt hunn.
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But beyond that I just want to state: we are voting for this resolution, because we already voted for it once.
\n\n13 June 2024 — proposing that archiving of recordings become the rule and deletion the exception
\n\n\nAus Transparenzgrënn fanne mer, datt et misst ëmgedréint sinn: D’Archivéierung misst d’Reegel sinn an d’Läschen d’Ausnam.
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For reasons of transparency we think it should be the other way round: archiving should be the rule and deletion the exception.
\n\n19 December 2024 — stating his own understanding of freedom of expression
\n\n\nAn et ass wichteg, datt och déi, déi net Ärer Meenung sinn, et kënne soen.
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And it is important that those who do not share your opinion can say it too.
\n\n10 July 2025 — demanding a reformed special commission instrument
\n\n\nMir fuerderen eng komplett nei Form vu parlamentarescher Spezialkommissioun mat all den néidegen Instrumenter!
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We demand a completely new form of parliamentary special commission with all the necessary instruments!
\n\n23 November 2023 — restating his party's demand to abolish tax class 1a and individualise taxation
\n\n\nMir Piraten fuerdere weiderhin eng Steierpolitick, déi net méi opgrond vu single, gepacst, gescheet oder verwittwet diskriminéiert. Mir wëllen, dass d’Steierklass 1a esou séier wéi méiglech ofgeschaaft gëtt.
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We Pirates continue to demand a tax policy that no longer discriminates on the basis of being single, in a civil partnership, divorced or widowed. We want tax class 1a abolished as soon as possible.
\n\n24 April 2024 — criticising the delay of the tax reform in favour of small changes to tax class 1a
\n\n\nFir eis Piraten ass eng fair a modern Steierreform ee vun den Haaptpilieren, deen hätt solle vun enger neier Regierung esou séier wéi méiglech ugaange ginn, an net just dat Gepiddels mat der eventueller Upassung just vum 1a.
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For us Pirates a fair and modern tax reform is one of the main pillars, one a new government should have tackled as quickly as possible, and not just this fiddling with a possible adjustment of class 1a alone.
\n\n17 December 2025 — criticising the minimum investment as excluding most of the population
\n\n\nEt ass nämlech eng Mesür fir déi Räich. En Investissement vu Minimum 10.000 Euro schléisst de gréissten Deel vun der Bevëlkerung automatesch aus.
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It is in fact a measure for the rich. A minimum investment of 10,000 euro automatically excludes most of the population.
\n\n28 April 2026 — criticising the proposed excise cut as mostly benefiting fuel buyers from abroad
\n\n\nEt géif just dozou féieren, datt mer 75 % vun deenen Akzisen, déi mer senke géifen, direkt an d’Ausland exportéieren.
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It would only lead to us exporting 75% of the excise duties we cut straight abroad.
\n\n22 January 2025 — judging that the European schools have not met their original aim
\n\n\nDat ursprénglecht Zil also vun den Europaschoulen, nämlech eng besser Bildungsgerechtegkeet, gouf bis elo mat dëser Offer hei net erreecht.
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So the original aim of the European schools, better educational fairness, has not been reached until now with this offer.
\n\n24 June 2025 — criticising the reform for not addressing the low standing of craft occupations
\n\n\nMat dësem Gesetz kréie mer eng Reform, déi d’Symptomer behandelt, awer d’Ursaach wäitgeeënd ignoréiert.
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With this law we get a reform that treats the symptoms but largely ignores the cause.
\n\n23 November 2023 — demanding a clear ban on private investors financing medical practices
\n\n\nWat fir eis Piraten awer kloer misst verhënnert ginn, ass, datt privat Investisseure finanziell dierfe bedeelegt ginn.
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What for us Pirates should clearly be prevented is that private investors may take a financial stake.
\n\n22 January 2025 — criticising the bill for granting insurers wide powers without safeguards
\n\n\nAmplaz gi mer de Versécherungsgesellschafte breet Befugnisser, fir Gesondheetsdaten ze verschaffen, ouni déi adequat Garantien, déi ech elo grad genannt hunn.
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Instead we are giving insurance companies broad powers to process health data, without the adequate safeguards I have just named.
\n\n13 February 2025 — warning that this generation may be the first to be sicker and live less long than its parents
\n\n\nDës Generatioun riskéiert dowéinst, déi éischt ze sinn, déi méi krank ass a manner laang lieft wéi hir Elteren.
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This generation therefore risks being the first that is sicker and lives less long than its parents.
\n\n30 April 2026 — stating that the legal ground of psychological suffering has never been applied in practice
\n\n\nEist Gesetz erlaabt och psychescht Leiden als Grond – theoreetesch. An der Praxis: nach ni applizéiert.
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Our law also allows psychological suffering as a ground – in theory. In practice: never yet applied.
\n\n23 November 2023 — setting his party's condition for any cut in the subscription tax
\n\n\nDofir dierf et Reduktiounen op der Tax, wéi d’Regierung se wëlles huet, fir eis nëmme fir richteg gréng Fonge ginn.
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That is why, for us, reductions in the tax as the government intends them may only apply to genuinely green funds.
\n\n13 June 2024 — supporting more transparency and information sharing against cybercrime
\n\n\nAn dofir, Här President, léif Kolleeginnen a Kolleegen, si mir Piraten fir all Schrëtt a Richtung méi Transparenz an Austausch am Kampf géint Cyberkriminalitéit.
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And therefore, Mr President, dear colleagues, we Pirates are for every step towards more transparency and exchange in the fight against cybercrime.
\n\n19 December 2024 — welcoming continued register access for journalists
\n\n\nDeementspriechend kann ech och nëmme begréissen, datt d’Journalisten hei weiderhin hiren Zougang behalen an datt deen och elo kloer gereegelt ass, soudatt mer do keng Doutte méi kréien.
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Accordingly I can only welcome that journalists here keep their access and that it is now clearly regulated, so that we get no more doubts about it.
\n\n28 April 2026 — stating that the measure serves the financial centre as well as craft businesses
\n\n\nMir sollten hei eis och éierlech an d’Ae kucken a soen: Dat heiten ass net nëmmen eppes, wat mer fir den Artisanat oder fir d’Independanten zu Lëtzebuerg maachen. Dat heite maache mer och fir d’Finanzplaz.
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We should look ourselves honestly in the eye here and say: this is not only something we are doing for craft trades or for the self-employed in Luxembourg. We are also doing this for the financial centre.
\n\n16 January 2024 — pressing the government to move the pending bill on the national security authority forward
\n\n\nMir waarden op alle Fall mat Nodrock drop, datt och dat ANS-Gesetz weidergeet um Instanzewee.
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In any case we are waiting insistently for the ANS law to move forward through the legislative process.
\n\n20 November 2024 — supporting a wider consular and diplomatic network
\n\n\nEt ass wichteg, datt mer a méiglechst ville Länner representéiert sinn, entweeder duerch eegen Ambassaden oder iwwert d’Ambassadë vun eisen Nopeschlänner, déi eng ganz Rei Servicer fir eis assuréieren.
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It is important that we are represented in as many countries as possible, either through our own embassies or through the embassies of our neighbouring countries, which provide a whole range of services for us.
\n\n29 October 2025 — describing the present international situation
\n\n\nMir liewen an enger Zäit vu Krisen, vun Onsécherheet a vun Illusiounen, déi mer eis nach ëmmer maachen.
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We live in a time of crises, of insecurity, and of illusions that we still hold.
\n\n18 March 2026 — characterising the American document as an ideological intervention in European democracies
\n\n\nEt ass net nëmmen eng Sécherheetsstrategie, et ass eng ideologesch Interventioun an eisen Demokratien.
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It is not only a security strategy, it is an ideological intervention in our democracies.
\n\n19 December 2023 — restating his position against any palm oil in fuel after a question from another member
\n\n\nAn deementspriechend wäert ech mech och weiderhin derfir asetzen, datt an eisem Spritt kee Palmueleg, ob 2 % oder 5 %, dra soll sinn.
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And accordingly I will keep pushing for no palm oil at all in our fuel, whether 2 or 5 percent.
\n\n24 April 2024 — setting out a climate policy aimed at the Paris agreement targets
\n\n\nMir Piraten sti fir eng Klimapolitick, déi d’Leit mathëlt an déi weider dru schafft, datt mer d’Ziler vum Paräisser Klimaaccord erreechen.
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We Pirates stand for a climate policy that takes people with it and keeps working towards reaching the targets of the Paris climate agreement.
\n\n18 December 2024 — stating that the approach against climate change is insufficient
\n\n\nD’Approche géint de Klimawandel geet am Moment net duer.
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The approach against climate change is not enough at the moment.
\n\n17 December 2025 — proposing that the CO2 tax be paid back in full to citizens
\n\n\nMir Piraten wëllen de Klimabonus. Eise Modell ass einfach: All Cent vun der CO2-Steier muss direkt un d’Leit zréckfléissen.
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We Pirates want the climate bonus. Our model is simple: every cent of the CO2 tax must flow straight back to the people.
\n\n24 April 2024 — insisting that higher defence spending needs a plan and concrete targets
\n\n\nDat dierf awer net bedeiten, datt Lëtzebuerg einfach Geld an eis Defense stécht, ouni Plang an ouni Kompass an ouni konkreet Ziler.
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But that must not mean that Luxembourg simply puts money into our defence, without a plan, without a compass and without concrete targets.
\n\n12 February 2025 — explaining that Article 5 needs unanimity in the NATO Council and could therefore be suspended
\n\n\nEn Aussetze vum Artikel 5 kéint séier Realitéit ginn, well – fir déi, déi et net wëssen – den Artikel 5, d’Klausel, datt jiddweree jiddwerengem bäisteet, verlaangt, fir declenchéiert ze ginn, Unanimitéit am Conseil vun der NATO.
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A suspension of Article 5 could quickly become reality, because, for those who do not know, Article 5, the clause that everyone stands by everyone, needs unanimity in the NATO Council to be triggered.
\n\n14 May 2025 — supporting the NATO target of 2%
\n\n\nMir solle bis d’Enn vun dësem Joer d’NATO-Zil vun 2 % erreechen. Dat ass an eisen Ae gutt, well Lëtzebuerg muss endlech och säin Deel zur Verdeedegung vun Europa bäidroen.
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We are to reach the NATO target of 2% by the end of this year. In our view that is good, because Luxembourg must finally contribute its share to the defence of Europe.
\n\n18 March 2026 — stating that Luxembourg did not adopt the 5 % defence spending figure freely but carried it in the end
\n\n\nMir sinn net ganz fräiwëlleg op déi Zuel komm, mir hu se awer schlussendlech matgedroen a mir kënne se natierlech elo als eng Fal gesinn oder als eng Chance.
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We did not arrive at that figure entirely voluntarily, but in the end we supported it, and we can now see it either as a trap or as an opportunity.
\n\n18 December 2024 — stating Luxembourg's rank for the digitalisation of justice
\n\n\nLaut dem EU Justice Scoreboard huet Lëtzebuerg deen am mannsten digitaliséierte Justizsystem an Europa – eng fatzeg Datz!
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According to the EU Justice Scoreboard, Luxembourg has the least digitalised justice system in Europe, a real slap in the face!
\n\n2 April 2025 — calling for a digital authority with technical competence and enough staff
\n\n\nMir brauchen eng staark digital Autoritéit, déi technesch kompetent a personell gutt opgestallt ass.
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We need a strong digital authority that is technically competent and well staffed.
\n\n24 June 2025 — arguing that the collected data on the phone ban must also be evaluated scientifically
\n\n\nMir erhiewen d’Donnéeën, ma da sollte mer se och auswäerte loossen.
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We collect the data, so we should also have it evaluated.
\n\n28 April 2026 — stating that the two texts come 18 months after the transposition deadline of 17 October 2024
\n\n\nDës zwee Texter kommen 18 Méint ze spéit. D’Deadline fir d’Transpositioun war de 17. Oktober 2024.
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These two texts come 18 months too late. The deadline for transposition was 17 October 2024.
\n\n25 June 2025 — warning that the bill does not deliver energy security
\n\n\nMir dierfen opgrond vun dësem Projet zum Beispill net der Illusioun vun der Energiesécherheet verfalen.
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We must not fall for the illusion of energy security because of this bill.
\n\n10 July 2025 — warning that the scheme may subsidise technologies that cannot survive on the market
\n\n\nMee mir hunn awer weiderhin de Problem, datt mer hei eventuell Technologië subventionéieren, déi sech um Maart net behaapte kënnen.
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But we still have the problem that we may be subsidising technologies here that cannot hold their own on the market.
\n\n20 May 2026 — urging support for the motion instead of an ideological dispute
\n\n\nDofir ass dat heiten eppes, wat mer onbedéngt sollten ënnerstëtzen, an net sech erëm an iergendengem ideologesche Griewerkampf verrennen, fir iwwerhaapt emol ze froen, ob mer an enger Kris sinn.
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That is why this is something we should absolutely support, instead of getting stuck again in some ideological trench warfare over whether we are even in a crisis.
\n\n27 June 2024 — arguing that the pension reserves are only safe if the fund leaves the energies he names as damaging
\n\n\nD’Pensiounsrécklage sinn awer nëmme sécher, wa mer se krisefest maachen an aus Energien erausklammen, déi de Rendement an eis Welt futtimaachen.
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The pension reserves are only safe if we make them crisis-proof and get out of energies that wreck the return and our world.
\n\n19 March 2025 — arguing that the financing gap opens only in five to ten years, so the reform need not be rushed
\n\n\nMir maache vläicht dëst Joer nach eng Pensiounsreform, mee déi Finanzéierungslücken di sech net automatesch haut op.
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We may still do a pension reform this year, but the financing gaps do not open automatically today.
\n\n14 May 2025 — arguing that the announced measure raises the retirement age indirectly
\n\n\nD’Verlängerung vun de Cotisatiounsjoren ass eng indirekt Pensiounsaltererhéijung. D’Regierung wëllt, datt d’Leit méi laang schaffen, ouni et esou ze nennen.
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Extending the contribution years is an indirect rise in the retirement age. The government wants people to work longer without calling it that.
\n\n16 June 2026 — announcing his group will abstain and why
\n\n\nMir wäerten eis bei dësem Projet enthalen, well mer och d’Pensiounsreform net matgestëmmt hunn.
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We will abstain on this bill, because we did not vote for the pension reform either.
\n\n20 March 2024 — arguing for ex ante merger control
\n\n\nEt ass ëmmer méi einfach, fir virun enger Fusioun ze intervenéieren, wéi spéider ze versichen, duerch Strofen d’Firmen auserneenzekréien.
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It is always easier to intervene before a merger than to try later to break the companies apart through fines.
\n\n30 April 2026 — stating the speaker's support for space but refusal of a blank cheque
\n\n\nEch soe Jo zum Weltraum. Mir soe Jo zur Innovatioun. Mee mir soen Nee zu engem Blankoscheck.
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I say yes to space. We say yes to innovation. But we say no to a blank cheque.
\n\n30 October 2025 — demanding that under-18s get no access to gambling, physically or online
\n\n\nDowéinst musse mer derfir suergen, datt d’Persounen ënner 18 Joer keen Accès zu Glécksspiller hunn, weeder physesch nach um Internet.
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That is why we must make sure that people under 18 have no access to gambling, neither physically nor on the internet.
\n\n11 February 2026 — stating that data retention continues despite European rulings
\n\n\nFakt ass, datt mir zu Lëtzebuerg weiderhin eng Virratsdatespäicherung hunn, an engem Kontext, deen op dem Europäesche Geriicht mëttlerweil méi wéi eng Kéier fir grondrechtswiddreg erkläert gouf.
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The fact is that we in Luxembourg still have data retention, in a context that the European Court has by now declared contrary to fundamental rights more than once.
\n\n28 April 2026 — warning that informing the employer at the investigating judge stage is a very early interference
\n\n\nMir wëlle just drop hiweisen, datt déi Méiglechkeet vun der Kommunikatioun un den Employeur scho bei der Saisine vum Juge d’instruction, wat jo ganz fréi an der Prozedur ka sinn, en immens fréien Agrëff kann duerstellen.
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We just want to point out that the possibility of communication to the employer as early as the referral to the investigating judge, which can be very early in the procedure, can amount to an extremely early interference.
\n\n17 June 2026 — criticising the majority's timing argument
\n\n\nWann een d’Motioun virum Vott vum Projet bréngt, dann ass se ze fréi. Wann ee se nom Vott vum Projet bréngt, dann ass se ze spéit.
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If you bring the motion before the vote on the bill, it is too early. If you bring it after the vote on the bill, it is too late.
\n\n20 November 2024 — arguing that internal border controls do not stop irregular migration
\n\n\nEt sinn net d’Grenzkontrollen, déi d’illegal Migratioun innerhalb vun der EU wäerte bekämpfen.
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It is not border controls that will fight irregular migration inside the EU.
\n\n22 January 2025 — criticising the absent ministers for not defending the evictions in the Chamber
\n\n\nMee de Courage ass do, fir Leit mat Kanner, mat Beebeeën erauszesetzen, awer net fir hir Aktioun heibannen ze verteidegen.
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But the courage is there to put people with children, with babies, out on the street, but not to defend their action in here.
\n\n16 October 2025 — stating his party's position that work should be possible from the first day on the territory
\n\n\nEen, deen hei op Lëtzebuerg kënnt, dee soll kënnen ab dem éischten Dag, wou en hei um Territoire ass, och schaffe goen, wann en dat wëll, wann en dofir apt ass, wann en eng Aarbecht fënnt.
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Someone who comes here to Luxembourg should be able to go to work from the first day he is on the territory, if he wants to, if he is fit for it, if he finds a job.
\n\n19 December 2024 — stating that his group will keep supporting the joint treatment of the two subjects
\n\n\nAn dofir denken ech, datt een dat do scho soll zesumme kucken, an dofir wäerte mir dat heiten och weiderhi matstëmmen.
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And so I think one should look at these together, and that is why we will keep voting for this.
\n\n20 May 2026 — stating that the word middle class did not appear in the prime minister's speech
\n\n\nD’Wuert „Mëttelklass“ ass gëschter net eemol gefall an enger Ried vun annerhallwer Stonn.
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The word middle class did not fall even once yesterday, in a speech of an hour and a half.
\n\n20 May 2026 — calling for an end to bracket creep
\n\n\nMir mussen ophalen, eise Biergerinnen a Bierger duerch d’kal Progressioun méi ofzehuelen, wéi se dobäigewannen.
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We must stop taking more from our citizens through cold progression than they gain.
\n\n17 December 2025 — demanding an end to the paperwork for social aid and a single social counter now
\n\n\nMir Piraten soe ganz kloer: Schluss mat der Bürokratie vun der Aarmut! Mir brauchen de Guichet social unique elo, net als Projet, mee als Realitéit.
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We Pirates say very clearly: an end to the bureaucracy of poverty! We need the single social counter now, not as a project but as a reality.
\n\n21 May 2026 — criticising the majority for dismissing child poverty with a committee meeting instead of voting the motion
\n\n\nVun dohier fannen ech et en Aarmutszeugnis vun dësem Haus, Kanneraarmut esou salopp ewechzewësche mat 53 Minutten an enger Kommissioun, amplaz hei tatsächlech eng substanziell Motioun ze stëmmen!
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From that I find it a poor showing by this House to brush child poverty aside so casually with 53 minutes in a committee, instead of actually voting a substantial motion here!
\n\n23 November 2023 — warning that the announced employment cheque could push workers into precarity
\n\n\nMir Piraten schwätzen eis kloer géint sougenannten Null-Stonne-Kontrakter aus, mee esou Chèques d’emploi kéinten och derfir suergen, datt d’Leit an d’Prekaritéit rutschen, well se laut Accord nëmmen an deene Stonnen, wou se geschafft hunn, och sozial verséchert sinn.
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We Pirates come out clearly against so-called zero-hour contracts, but such employment cheques could also mean that people slide into precarity, because according to the agreement they are only covered by social insurance for the hours they have worked.
\n\n16 January 2024 — announcing his group's vote for the bill
\n\n\nDofir stëmme mer dat heiten och mat am Interêt vun de schaffende Leit.
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That is why we are voting for this too, in the interest of working people.
\n\n18 December 2025 — stating figures from the committee report on the reach of the 30-employee threshold
\n\n\nA wéi de Rapport selwer seet, deckt dëse Schwellewäert vun 30 zwar 90 % vun den Entreprisen of, awer just 35 % vun de Salariéen.
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And as the report itself says, this threshold of 30 covers 90% of the companies, but only 35% of the employees.
\n\n21 May 2026 — putting the number of blood donors at 2.5 per cent of all employees
\n\n\n15.000 Leit, wa mer dervun ausginn, datt se sech d’nämmlecht op de Staatsdéngscht an op Privatwirtschaft verdeele wéi de Rescht vun der Populatioun, da schwätze mer vun 2,5 % vun alle Salariéen a Salariéeën hei zu Lëtzebuerg.
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15,000 people: if we assume they are spread over the public service and the private economy like the rest of the population, then we are talking about 2.5% of all employees here in Luxembourg.
\n\n26 June 2025 — criticising the government's reading of union rights as a reversal of established practice
\n\n\nHär President, dës Interpretatioun representéiert eng 180-Grad-Kéier zu der etabléierter Praxis a weist, wéi d’Regierung scheinbar zu engem effikasse Sozialdialog steet.
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Mr President, this interpretation represents a 180-degree turn from established practice and shows how the government apparently stands on an effective social dialogue.
\n\n26 June 2025 — pointing out that the first-instance judgement has still not been published
\n\n\nD’Urteel ass komescherweis nach ëmmer net publizéiert, obwuel Urteeler virdrun an duerno virun der nämmlechter Chamber publizéiert sinn.
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The judgement has strangely still not been published, even though judgements before and after it from the same chamber have been published.
\n\n19 March 2024 — stating that his party does not regard the vote as an election
\n\n\nEch soen et nach eng Kéier ganz kloer: Fir eis waren dat hei keng Walen, an domadder kann een och net vun engem legitimme Resultat schwätzen!
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I say it once again very clearly: for us these were not elections, and therefore one cannot speak of a legitimate result either!
\n\n23 January 2025 — recalling the government's commitment at the NATO summit and questioning why the peace process is now linked to it
\n\n\nEis Regierung huet um Sommet matgedroen, datt d’Ukrain op engem irreversibele Pad zu enger NATO-Memberschaft wär, wann de Krich bis eriwwer wär, an dofir verstinn ech net, firwat elo erëm de Friddensprozess domadder an een Dëppe gepucht gëtt.
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Our government supported at the summit that Ukraine is on an irreversible path to NATO membership once the war is over, and so I do not understand why the peace process is now being lumped together with it again.
\n\n29 October 2025 — calling for progress on frozen Russian assets
\n\n\nMir missten och endlech weiderkomme beim Punkt vun de Frozen Assets.
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We should at last make progress on the point of the frozen assets.
\n\n24 April 2024 — stating that state spending rises by half a billion and denying that the budget saves
\n\n\nD’Ausgabe vum Staat sinn dëst Joer eng hallef Milliard méi héich wéi d’lescht Joer. Vu Spuere kann also an dësem Budget keng Ried sinn.
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State spending this year is half a billion higher than last year. So there can be no talk of saving in this budget.
\n\n17 December 2025 — stating the 2026 interest cost and blaming the government for it
\n\n\nWell dës Regierung net fäeg war, vernënfteg mat eisem Steiergeld ëmzegoen, gi mer 2026 eleng 436 Milliounen Euro fir Zënsen aus.
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Because this government was not able to handle our tax money sensibly, we spend 436 million euros on interest in 2026 alone.
\n\n20 May 2026 — demanding a debt projection and a generational cost analysis from the government
\n\n\nMir brauchen eng kloer Ausso iwwert d’Verschëldungsdynamik bis 2035 an eng Generatiounskäschtenanalys.
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We need a clear statement on the debt dynamics up to 2035 and an analysis of the costs across generations.
\n\n14 December 2023 — announcing his party's agreement to the payment
\n\n\nAn dofir ginn d’Piraten och hiren Accord, fir déi 61 Milliounen elo an dee Fong dranzestiechen.
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And that is why the Pirates also give their agreement to put those 61 million into that fund now.
\n\n11 July 2024 — agreeing with the previous speaker that the real total spending should be communicated alongside the 1 % target, with additionality kept
\n\n\nDeen eenzege Punkt, wou ech mengem Virriedner Recht géif ginn, dat ass, datt mer et méi missten an d’Fënster setzen, wéi vill mer wierklech ausginn, an datt mer net nëmme vun eisem Zil vun 1 % schwätzen, mee datt mer an der Additionalitéit déi erhalen, awer gläichzäiteg och kommunizéieren, wéi vill mer wierklech ginn.
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The only point on which I would agree with the previous speaker is that we should show more of how much we really spend, and that we should not only talk about our 1 % target, but keep additionality and at the same time communicate how much we really give.
\n\n2 April 2025 — explaining that the banks may now borrow more on the markets without putting their triple-A rating at risk
\n\n\nDat heescht, ouni elo hiren Triple-A-Rating a Fro ze stellen, däerfen déi Banken also elo méi Geld op de Marchéë léine goen, wéi se dat virdrun hunn däerfen.
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That means that, without putting their triple-A rating in question, these banks may now go and borrow more money on the markets than they were allowed to before.
\n\n13 February 2025 — asking for the motion to go to committee
\n\n\nDofir wär och meng Virléift, datt mer géifen nach eng Kéier an der Kommissioun doriwwer diskutéieren.
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That is why my preference would be for us to discuss it once more in committee.
\n\n8 July 2025 — rejecting the call for institutional neutrality in the Chamber
\n\n\nMa wann een hei net neutral soll sinn a politeschen Äusserungen, dann ass et eng Chamber!
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If there is one place that should not be neutral in political statements, it is a Chamber!
\n\n2 April 2025 — stating what the bill changes for unmarried couples, partnerships and single persons
\n\n\nD’Gesetz erméiglecht elo och onbestuete Koppelen, Partnerschaften a Singlepersounen ze adoptéieren.
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The law now also allows unmarried couples, partnerships and single persons to adopt.
\n\n24 June 2025 — criticising the lack of data underlying the youth protection and youth criminal law reform
\n\n\nMir schwätzen iwwer Jugendschutz, Jugendstrofrecht a mir stocheren am Niwwel, well mer guer net wëssen, wéi de Phenomeen sech statistesch opschlësselt.
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We talk about youth protection and youth criminal law and we are groping in the fog, because we have no idea how the phenomenon breaks down statistically.
\n\n25 June 2025 — objecting that age verification is technically problematic
\n\n\nDo ass eng Altersverifikatioun immens problematesch, aus technesche Grënn.
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Age verification there is extremely problematic, for technical reasons.
\n\n23 January 2025 — arguing for the motion asking for updated data
\n\n\nEch mengen, datt d’Motioun do kloer ass: Wann d’Welt weiderdréint, da brauche mer grad dës Motioun.
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I think the motion is clear on this: if the world keeps turning, then we need exactly this motion.
\n\n14 May 2025 — criticising the government for selling the change as freedom
\n\n\nMee och, datt hei eppes als „Fräiheet“ verkaaft soll ginn, dat deene Schwächsten hir Fräiheet ewechhëlt, fir deene Bessergestallten d’Fräiheet ze ginn, och sonndes mëttes akafen ze goen.
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But also that something is to be sold here as freedom which takes away the freedom of the weakest in order to give the better-off the freedom to go shopping on Sunday afternoons too.
\n\n18 December 2025 — rejecting the bill as a patchwork of privileges and announcing a vote against
\n\n\nMee dat hei ass keng eenheetlech Léisung. Dat hei ass eng Fléckschousterei vu Privileegien. Mir stëmme géint dësen Text.
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But this is not a uniform solution. This is a patchwork of privileges. We are voting against this text.
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\n\n\nEt kéint also op eppes wéi en Handelskrich erauslafen, bei deem béid Säiten, d’USA, mee eeben och Europa, vill ze verléieren hunn.
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It could therefore end in something like a trade war, in which both sides, the USA but also Europe, have a lot to lose.
\n\n\nEt kann een haut keng barcodescannend App entwéckelen, well d’Barcoden net mat publizéiert ginn.
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Today you cannot develop a barcode-scanning app, because the barcodes are not published as well.
\n\n\nDat ass ze bedaueren, well déi 11.000 Tonnen Elektroschrott hätt een éischter kënnen aspueren a virun allem hätt een och kënnen derfir suergen, datt se wierklech agespuert géife ginn.
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That is regrettable, because the 11,000 tonnes of electronic waste could have been saved earlier and, above all, one could have made sure they really are saved.
\n\n\nWat fir eis Piraten ganz wichteg ass, ass, datt d’Kultur onofhängeg vun der Politick ass.
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What is very important for us Pirates is that culture is independent of politics.
\n\n\nD’Banke mussen hir Verantwortung hei och iwwerhuelen, firwat se net méi konstruktiv un enger séierer Léisung matgeschafft hunn.
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The banks must also take their responsibility here, for why they did not work more constructively on a quick solution.
\n\n\nEch hunn op alle Fall d’Gefill, datt d’Police hei hänke gelooss gëtt, hänke gelooss an enger Onkloerheet, wou se net weess, wéi se dat, wat hire Minister decidéiert huet, wéi en d’Kap vum Inneminister unhat, dann elo soll ëmsetzen.
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In any case I have the feeling that the police are being left hanging here, left in an uncertainty where they do not know how they are to enforce what their minister decided while wearing his interior minister's hat.
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