The Chamber debated the foreign minister's declaration on foreign policy, delivered the previous day, with the Russian war against Ukraine, western military and financial support, and the sanctions policy as the main thread of every group's speech.
In the same debate on the foreign policy declaration, speakers of all groups set out their positions on Gaza, Israel, Lebanon, Iran, and the funding of UNRWA, one week after the Chamber's separate debate on recognising Palestine.
The debate on the foreign policy declaration turned at length to the EU-Mercosur agreement, on which the minister had said the day before that Luxembourg could not give its consent, and to the single market, enlargement, and unanimity in EU decision-making.
Within the foreign policy debate, groups took position on raising defence spending towards 2 % of gross national income, on the 2.6 billion euro military procurement law voted the previous week, and on a common European defence.
The foreign policy debate included a sustained exchange on asylum and migration, covering the EU pact on asylum and migration, Frontex, border controls in the Schengen area, and legal routes into Europe.
The sitting held the debate on the foreign minister's policy declaration of the previous day, in which the opposition questioned the coherence and visibility of Luxembourg's diplomacy and the network of embassies; déi Lénk tabled a motion on the removal of elected local officials in Turkey, which the Chamber adopted in a modified form by show of hands.