Léon Gloden served in the government and held the portfolio of Affaires intérieures during the sittings recorded here.
\nSpoke on bills: PL8304, PL8305, PL8369, PL8381, PL8409, PL8452, PL8481, PL8489, PL8512, PL8513, PL8684, PL8732.
\nSittings spoken in: 36.
\n27 February 2024 — announcing that building permits are to be valid for two years
\n\n\nDen zweete konkreete Projet ass, datt mer d’Baugeneemegung an Zukunft direkt op zwee Joer wëllen eropsetzen.
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The second concrete project is that in future we want to raise the building permit straight away to two years.
\n\n10 October 2024 — announcing the next housing bill the government will table
\n\n\nDëst Joer bis Enn des Joers wäerte mer nach de Projet de loi iwwert d’Modifikatioun vum Artikel 29bis erabréngen.
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By the end of this year we will still bring in the bill on the amendment of article 29bis.
\n\n10 June 2025 — defending the bill as solving one identified problem of the existing article
\n\n\nE léist net all d’Problemer, mee e léist elo mol deen do Problem, dee kloer erauskomm ass opgrond vun dem besteeënden Artikel 29bis.
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It does not solve all the problems, but it does solve that problem which came out clearly because of the existing Article 29bis.
\n\n19 December 2024 — giving the hours the police spent on detainee transport
\n\n\nMir hu fir déi lescht zwielef Méint insgesamt 51.312 Stonne mam Gefaangenentransport verbruecht. Dat ass eng Augmentatioun vun 8 % par rapport zu 2023.
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Over the last twelve months we spent a total of 51,312 hours on detainee transport. That is an increase of 8% compared with 2023.
\n\n15 May 2024 — explaining the government's lowering of the salary threshold
\n\n\nJo, mir hu bewosst de Seuil vum Salaire erofgesat, fir et eebe grad méi einfach ze maachen, fir qualifizéiert Personal, qualifizéiert Leit hei op Lëtzebuerg ze kréien.
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Yes, we deliberately lowered the salary threshold, precisely to make it easier to bring qualified staff, qualified people, here to Luxembourg.
\n\n25 June 2024 — stating the number of cases NGOs brought to the existing forum
\n\n\nA säit senger Kreatioun bis Enn 2023 sinn do 93 Dossiere vun den ONGe presentéiert ginn.
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And since its creation until the end of 2023, 93 files have been presented there by the NGOs.
\n\n25 June 2024 — refusing to change the law on residence permits for now
\n\n\nMee meng kloer Äntwert ass: À ce stade gëtt d’Gesetz net geännert, fir net erëm d’Dier opzemaache fir Abusen!
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But my clear answer is: at this stage the law will not be changed, so as not to open the door to abuses again!
\n\n10 December 2024 — announcing his decision to suspend pending Syrian asylum procedures
\n\n\nOpgrond vun där gudder Nouvelle hunn ech decidéiert, déi aktuell Prozeduren, déi aktuell Unträg, Demandë vu syresche Flüchtlingen ze suspendéieren.
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Because of that good news I decided to suspend the current procedures, the current applications, the requests of Syrian refugees.
\n\n10 December 2024 — stating how many Syrian applicants the suspension affects
\n\n\nZurzäit hu mer hei 825 syresch Demandeuren. Dat sinn also 825 Leit, déi vun dëser Suspensioun betraff gi sinn.
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At present we have 825 Syrian applicants here. So that is 825 people who are affected by this suspension.
\n\n9 June 2026 — defending the screening procedure as an answer to the debate
\n\n\nEch mengen, all Rechtsstaat huet d’Recht ze kucken, wie sech op sengem Territoire ophält.
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I think every state under the rule of law has the right to check who is present on its territory.
\n\n14 November 2024 — stating the government's position against internal border controls
\n\n\nMee nach eng Kéier: Mir als Regierung si géint d’Kontrollen un de Bannegrenzen a wëllen d’Baussegrenze vun Europa mat deenen anere Memberstaate verstäerken.
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But once again: we as a government are against the controls at the internal borders and want to strengthen Europe's external borders together with the other member states.
\n\n13 February 2025 — explaining why the government opposes the motion
\n\n\nDofir fanne mer déi Motioun elo net gutt, well e Recours beim Europäesche Geriichtshaff gefuerdert gëtt.
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That is why we do not think this motion is good, because it calls for an appeal to the European Court of Justice.
\n\n2 July 2024 — stating that a suspension would probably be annulled by the administrative court
\n\n\nGéif ech déi Persoun suspendéieren, wier de Risiko enorm grouss, datt den Tribunal administratif géif meng Decisioun annuléieren.
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If I suspended that person, the risk would be enormous that the administrative court would annul my decision.
\n\n2 July 2024 — stating that case law allows a suspension only for a fault committed in office
\n\n\nAn do ass et effektiv esou, datt déi franséisch Jurisprudenz ausschlaggeebend ass, déi ganz kloer seet, dass een een an dësem Fall nëmme suspendéiere kann, wann en e Feeler am Kader vum Exercice vu sengem Mandat gemaach huet.
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And there it is indeed the French case law that is decisive, which says very clearly that in such a case you can only suspend someone if he made a fault in the exercise of his mandate.
\n\n2 May 2024 — announcing a bill making every commune pay 2 % of the business tax into the employment fund
\n\n\nDofir sinn ech frou, datt ech mam Kolleeg Aarbechtsminister – well et ass e Gesetz vun him, vum Fonds pour l’emploi – elo eeben de Projet de loi wäert an nächster Zukunft deponéieren, wou all Gemeng 2 % vum Impôt commercial abezilt.
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So I am glad that together with my colleague the labour minister, because the law on the Fonds pour l'emploi is his, I will now table in the near future the bill under which every commune pays in 2 % of the business tax.
\n\n2 May 2024 — announcing that he wants to wind up the Fonds communal de péréquation conjoncturale and pay the money back to the communes
\n\n\nA vu datt d’Gemengen d’Sue brauchen, wëll ech och dee Fong souzesoe liberéieren, liquidéieren, datt d’Gemengen déi Suen zréckkréien, déi si an dee Fong abezuelt hunn.
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And since the communes need the money, I also want to free up that fund, so to speak, to liquidate it, so that the communes get back the money they paid into it.
\n\n30 April 2025 — justifying the reform by stating that small rural municipalities paid in more than they received from the business tax
\n\n\nA besonnesch kleng Gemengen, och aus dem ländleche Raum, hunn am Fong méi do bezuelt, wéi se iwwert den ICC erakritt hunn.
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And in particular small municipalities, also from rural areas, in fact paid in more than they received through the business tax.
\n\n12 March 2024 — announcing 55 recruitments to the judicial police this year
\n\n\nDat heescht, dëst Joer ginn aleng 55 Leit bei der Police judiciaire rekrutéiert, fir eebe kënne méi schnell déi Dossieren opzeschaffen, well – do sinn ech d’accord mat Iech – dat si grav Dossieren a mir mussen Efforte maachen, fir déi opzeschaffen, well d’Kriminalitéit muss bekämpft ginn.
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That means that this year alone 55 people are being recruited to the judicial police, so that these files can be worked through faster, because, and here I agree with you, these are serious files and we must make efforts to work through them, because crime must be fought.
\n\n3 December 2024 — stating what statistics the police already keep
\n\n\nD’Police féiert am Kader vun de Violences envers des personnes en Tablo, wou ënnerscheet gëtt tëschent den Auteuren an de Victimmen.
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In the field of violence against persons the police keep a table which distinguishes between offenders and victims.
\n\n3 December 2024 — announcing a test phase for e-bikes in police commissariats
\n\n\nD’Police wäert vun Abrëll bis September 2025 eng Testphas lancéieren, wou zwee E-Bikes pro Kommissariat zur Verfügung gestallt ginn.
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From April to September 2025 the police will start a test phase in which two e-bikes are made available per commissariat.
\n\n5 December 2024 — stating the number of alerts entered in the SIS this year
\n\n\nInsgesamt sinn dëst Joer 93.089.353 Signalementer am SIS gemaach ginn.
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In total, 93,089,353 alerts were entered in the SIS this year.
\n\n10 December 2024 — answering that the situation improved from 2023 to 2024
\n\n\nAn ech kann Iech berouegen, d’Situatioun huet sech verbessert vun 2023 op 2024.
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And I can reassure you, the situation has improved from 2023 to 2024.
\n\n10 December 2024 — giving burglary figures for the same period in 2023 and 2024
\n\n\n2023: Vum 1. Oktober bis den 8. Dezember waren 869 Abréch. A fir déi selwecht Zäit elo dëst Joer si mer bei 531 Abréch, also e weesentleche Réckgang vun 38,5 %.
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2023: from 1 October to 8 December there were 869 burglaries. And for the same period this year we are at 531 burglaries, so a substantial fall of 38.5%.
\n\n24 June 2025 — stating, as minister, how many officers the reclassification covers
\n\n\nIwwer 400 Polizistinnen a Poliziste kommen an de Genoss vun där Opwäertung vun der Karriär C1 an de B1.
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More than 400 police officers will benefit from this upgrade from career C1 to B1.
\n\n16 October 2025 — defending the local police unit as police that know the ground
\n\n\nEt ass eebe wichteg, datt d’Police den Terrain kennt. D’Police geet duerch d’Stroossen. D’Police ass de gudden Noper vun de Leit, am direkte Kontakt mat de Bierger a Biergerinnen.
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It is important that the police know the ground. The police walk the streets. The police are the good neighbour of the people, in direct contact with citizens.
\n\n29 October 2025 — defending the bill against the criticism that it weakens human rights
\n\n\nMir maachen hei eng Simplification administrative mat kloren Delaien, fir datt mer méi schnell virukommen, ouni d’Mënscherechter mat Féiss ze trëppelen.
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We are making an administrative simplification here with clear deadlines, so that we move faster, without trampling human rights underfoot.
\n\n10 February 2026 — the minister announcing he will withdraw one attacker's refugee status
\n\n\nEch hunn decidéiert, datt ech dat maachen. Ech wäert där Persoun de Flüchtlingsstatut ewechhuelen.
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I have decided to do that. I will withdraw that person's refugee status.
\n\n10 February 2026 — the minister dismissing the call for nationality statistics as populist
\n\n\nPolice a Ministèrë schaffe faktebaséiert, an net op Basis vu populistesche Rumeuren.
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The police and the ministries work on the basis of facts, not on the basis of populist rumours.
\n\n19 December 2023 — answering the debate as interior minister and defending his approval as respect for local autonomy
\n\n\nFir d’éischt wëll ech emol ënnersträichen: Et ass eng Decisioun vum Stater Gemengerot. Also et ass eng Decisioun vun engem demokrateschen Organ opgrond vun der lokaler Autonomie.
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First I want to underline: it is a decision of the Luxembourg City council. So it is a decision of a democratic body based on local autonomy.
\n\n16 January 2024 — answering as interior minister on the instructions given to the police
\n\n\nEt ass do ganz kloer festgehal ginn, datt d’Police um Terrain sech soll e Lagebild maachen, datt se mat deene Leit soll schwätzen, fir och ze verstoen, firwat se do sëtzen.
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It was set out very clearly there that the police on the ground should get a picture of the situation and should talk to these people, in order to understand why they are sitting there.
\n\n14 March 2024 — the minister stating the figure for reducing judicial police numbers in the dispositif
\n\n\nHaut de Moien ass gesot ginn, datt den Dispositif vun deenen 110 Agente vun der Police judiciaire fir déi nächst 14 Deeg op 30 Agente vun der Police judiciaire erofgefuer gëtt.
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This morning it was said that the dispositif is being reduced from those 110 judicial police officers to 30 judicial police officers for the next 14 days.
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