{"id":"dossiers/PL8613","title":"PL8613 — Accord Sarre Schengen-Lycée","type":"dossier","html":"<p>Bill 8613 (\"Accord Sarre Schengen-Lycée\"). The Chamber debated and voted it on 21 January 2026.</p>\n<p>Sittings: <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-01-21-n122\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-01-21-n122\">Sitting of 21 January 2026</a></p>\n<h2>Debate</h2>\n<h3>21 January 2026 — <a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Feducation-and-schools\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/education-and-schools\">Education and schools</a></h3>\n<p>Projets de loi 8613 and 8614 on the Schengen-Lycee in Perl, adapting the school course to the Saarland G9 model and fixing Luxembourg's share of running costs at 50 %, both adopted unanimously with 60 votes, followed by projet de loi 8609 amending the 2022 law on communal music teaching, also adopted unanimously with 60 votes.</p>\n<p>Ricardo Marques (CSV), agreeing that the state takes over 50 % of the Schengen-Lycee running costs:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dowéinst si mer averstanen, datt mir als Staat elo 50 % vun de Frais de fonctionnement vum Schengen-Lycée iwwerhuelen, wat fir méi Stabilitéit a Previsibilitéit suerge wäert.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>That is why we agree that we as the state now take over 50 % of the running costs of the Schengen-Lycée, which will bring more stability and predictability.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-01-21-n122\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-01-21-n122\">Sitting of 21 January 2026</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fricardo-marques\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/ricardo-marques\">Ricardo Marques</a>, CSV</p>\n<p>Fred Keup (ADR), criticising the difference in school-leaving age between school types in Luxembourg:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A mir fannen dat fundamental ongerecht, wann an enger Strooss, souguer an enger Famill, dat eent Kand ka seng Première mat 18 maachen an dat anert Kand awer eréischt mat 19.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>And we find it fundamentally unfair when in one street, even in one family, one child can do its Première at 18 and the other only at 19.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-01-21-n122\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-01-21-n122\">Sitting of 21 January 2026</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Ffred-keup\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/fred-keup\">Fred Keup</a>, ADR</p>\n<p>Francine Closener (LSAP), welcoming the minister's plan to modernise solfege teaching:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Virun allem wëll ech awer och an dësem Kontext ausdrécklech begréissen, datt de Minister de Solfège wäert moderniséieren.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Above all I want to expressly welcome, in this context, that the minister will modernise solfège.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-01-21-n122\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-01-21-n122\">Sitting of 21 January 2026</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Ffrancine-closener\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/francine-closener\">Francine Closener</a>, LSAP</p>\n<h2>Votes</h2>\n<h3>Main vote: PL 8613 - Accord Sarre Schengen-Lycée</h3>\n<p>21 January 2026 — Premier vote constitutionnel.</p>\n<table><thead><tr><th>Party</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">For</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">Against</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">Abstain</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fcsv\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/csv\">CSV</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">21</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdp\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dp\">DP</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">14</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Flsap\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/lsap\">LSAP</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">12</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fadr\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/adr\">ADR</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">5</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdei-greng\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dei-greng\">déi gréng</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">4</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fpiraten\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/piraten\">Piraten</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">2</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdei-lenk\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dei-lenk\">déi Lénk</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">2</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Total</strong></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>60</strong></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>0</strong></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>0</strong></td></tr></tbody></table>\n<p>No deputy voted against the majority of their party in this vote.</p>"}