Second day of the debate on the state of the nation: the parties answered the Prime Minister's ten-point housing plan announced the day before, and the LSAP tabled a motion asking for a national strategy for public housing.
The government declared the fight against poverty a transversal priority; the LSAP tabled motion 1 asking the government to study a higher minimum wage, a tax-free minimum wage, a higher single-parent tax credit and a REVIS reform in its national action plan.
The parties debated the tax measures of the government declaration: the adjustment of the tax table by 2.5 index brackets on 1 January 2025, the one-point cut in corporate tax and relief for single parents.
The counter-financing of the announced measures was the central question of the debate: Bausch put a question on the budget balance to the CSV speaker, who answered it from the rostrum.
The government confirmed that Luxembourg will reach 2% of GNI for defence by 2030 and that 70 million euros of military aid for Ukraine were released; the parties set out their positions on that trajectory.
The new climate bonus scheme and the electricity price cap were debated: subsidies for photovoltaic installations fall from 62.5% to 50% from 1 October, and the parties disagreed on renewables and on nuclear power.
The Prime Minister announced a pension debate based on an opinion of the Economic and Social Council; the parties set out how they want that debate led and what the system's financing requires.
Administrative simplification was the main axis of the government declaration: the once-only principle, a single counter for state aids and tacit approval of permits; the opposition argued that simplification alone answers nothing.