Culture and heritage came before the Chamber repeatedly between March 2025 and June 2026. The sittings covered the protection periods of the 2018 archiving law, the 2022 cultural heritage law and the cost of preventive archaeology, the governance of the Mudam museum, the reform and multiannual financing of the Film Fund, the industrial heritage of the Belval site, the new Observatoire de la culture, and state support for libraries. The quotes below are taken verbatim from the Compte rendu officiel of each sitting.
\nOn 2 April 2025, in the debate on the bill amending the 2022 cultural heritage law, Octavie Modert stated what the main change in the bill does to the cost of preventive excavations.
\n\n\nDéi gréisst Ännerung bedeit, datt de Bauhär net méi d’Käschte vun de preventiven Ausgruewungen droe muss, mee de Staat iwwerhëlt se elo ganz.
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The biggest change means that the builder no longer has to carry the cost of preventive excavations; the State now takes it over in full.
\nSitting of 2 April 2025, Octavie Modert, CSV
\nOn 2 December 2025, during the question on keeping the two chimneys on the Belval site, Michel Wolter called it a scandal that, according to a communiqué of the Sanem municipality, the chimneys were not looked after for 25 years.
\n\n\nEch liesen an engem Communiqué vun der Gemeng Suessem, datt 25 Joer net no deene Kamäiner gekuckt gi wier. Dat empfannen ech perséinlech als e Skandal!
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I read in a press release of the Sanem municipality that the chimneys were not looked after for 25 years. I personally find that a scandal!
\nSitting of 2 December 2025, Michel Wolter, CSV
\nOn 17 June 2026, in the debate on the bill on state support for public and specialised libraries, Jean-Paul Schaaf stated the new start-up grant and regretted its limits.
\n\n\nDofir gëtt mam Gesetz och déi eemoleg Starthëllef – de Rapporter ass drop agaang – vun 100.000 Euro an d’Liewe geruff, woubäi ech awer bedaueren, datt déi net fir eng ASBL zur Verfügung steet, mee nëmme wann et eng kommunal Bibliothéik ass.
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That is why the law also creates the one-off start-up aid — the rapporteur went into it — of 100,000 euros, though I regret that it is not available to a non-profit association, but only to a municipal library.
\nSitting of 17 June 2026, Jean-Paul Schaaf, CSV
\nOn 20 March 2025, during the interpellation on the archiving law of 17 August 2018, André Bauler defended the 2018 archiving law as a clear framework that no politician or archive director can set aside at will.
\n\n\nMir hei zu Lëtzebuerg hu mat dem Archivgesetz vun 2018 fir e klore Kader gesuergt mat prezise Reegelen, déi dozou féieren, datt kee Regierungspolitiker oder Archivdirekter dat einfach esou no Loscht a Laun aushiewele kann.
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Here in Luxembourg, with the 2018 archiving law, we created a clear framework with precise rules, so that no government politician or archive director can simply override it at will.
\nSitting of 20 March 2025, André Bauler, DP
\nOn 20 March 2025, during his interpellation on the archiving law of 17 August 2018, Franz Fayot stated his party's position that every protection period in the archiving law must be shortened.
\n\n\nHär President, bei allen Delaien am Archivgesetz si mer der Meenung, dass se musse verkierzt ginn.
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Mr President, we hold that all the time limits in the archiving law must be shortened.
\nSitting of 20 March 2025, Franz Fayot, LSAP
\nOn 17 June 2026, in the debate on the bill on state support for public and specialised libraries, Georges Engel stated a principle on access to knowledge.
\n\n\nDen Zougang zu Wëssen dierf net vum Wunnuert, dem Akommes oder dem sozialen Hannergrond ofhänken.
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Access to knowledge must not depend on where you live, on income or on social background.
\nSitting of 17 June 2026, Georges Engel, LSAP
\nOn 2 April 2025, in the debate on the bill amending the 2022 cultural heritage law, Alexandra Schoos criticised the priority given to building over the valorisation of heritage sites.
\n\n\nZu Lëtzebuerg ass a bleift also d’Zoubetonéiere vum Territoire eebe méi wichteg wéi d’Valoriséierung vum Patrimoine.
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In Luxembourg, concreting over the territory is and remains more important than making the most of our heritage.
\nSitting of 2 April 2025, Alexandra Schoos, ADR
\nOn 18 November 2025, in the debate on the first multiannual financing law for the Film Fund, Dan Hardy regretted that no independent control body was created alongside the funding.
\n\n\nWourop ech schonn a menger Ried dëst Joer zum Filmfonggesetz opmierksam gemaach hat: Mir hätten eis als ADR gewënscht, datt zousätzlech eng onofhängeg Kontrollinstanz geschafe gi wär, well eeben esou vill Sue vum Steierzueler agesat ginn.
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What I already drew attention to in my speech this year on the Film Fund law: as the ADR we would have liked an independent control body to be created as well, precisely because so much taxpayers' money is used.
\nSitting of 18 November 2025, Dan Hardy, ADR
\nOn 30 April 2025, during the discussion of her resolution on the Mudam museum, Djuna Bernard explained why she asks for the resignation letter and its annex.
\n\n\nDëse Bréif an dat Dokument, wat dozougehéiert, ass nun emol net onwichteg, wann et drëms geet ze verstoen, wou de Problem innerhalb vum Mudam läit.
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This letter and the document that goes with it are simply not unimportant if you want to understand where the problem inside Mudam lies.
\nSitting of 30 April 2025, Djuna Bernard, déi gréng
\nOn 21 January 2026, in the debate on the bill creating an Observatoire de la culture, Djuna Bernard described the observatory as a political rather than a bureaucratic instrument.
\n\n\nDen Observatoire ass fir mech ganz sécher kee bürokratescht Instrument, mee e politescht.
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For me the observatory is certainly not a bureaucratic instrument, but a political one.
\nSitting of 21 January 2026, Djuna Bernard, déi gréng
\nOn 18 November 2025, in the debate on the first multiannual financing law for the Film Fund, Marc Goergen criticised the size of the sum against the jobs it supports.
\n\n\nJo, all Respekt fir déi Aarbechtsplazen, mee mat 180 Millioune kéint Der warscheinlech jiddereen, deen zu Lëtzebuerg schafft, an deene véier Joer cash ausbezuelen, well méi Aarbechtsplaze wäerten et net sinn.
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Yes, all respect for those jobs, but with 180 million you could probably pay everyone who works in Luxembourg in cash over those four years, because there will not be more jobs than that.
\nSitting of 18 November 2025, Marc Goergen, Piraten
\nOn 2 April 2025, in the debate on the bill amending the 2022 cultural heritage law, Marc Baum attacked the new cost rule as public money that secures developers' profit margins.
\n\n\nDat ass am Moment net esou, an dat hei ass eng weider Mesür, wou Suen, ëffentlech Suen, geholl ginn, fir d’Gewënnmargë vun de Promoteuren ze assuréieren.
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That is not the case at the moment, and this is a further measure where money, public money, is used to secure the profit margins of the developers.
\nSitting of 2 April 2025, Marc Baum, déi Lénk
\nOn 18 November 2025, in the debate on the first multiannual financing law for the Film Fund, Marc Baum argued that public funding is indispensable for a European film industry.
\n\n\nDuerfir muss ee soen, wann ee sech déi ganz europäesch Filmindustrie ukuckt: Ouni staatlech Hëllef géif et iwwerhaapt keng europäesch Filmindustrie ginn!
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So one has to say, if you look at the whole European film industry: without state aid there would be no European film industry at all!
\nSitting of 18 November 2025, Marc Baum, déi Lénk
\nOn 2 December 2025, answering the question on keeping the two chimneys on the Belval site, the Minister of Culture explained why the two chimneys no longer meet the criteria for national heritage protection.
\n\n\nDes Weideren erfëllen dës zwee Kamäiner, déi net méi an hirem industrielle Kontext stinn a staark zréckgebaut goufen, net méi genuch eis Krittären, notamment de Krittär vun der Authentizitéit, fir an deem Sënn en nationalen Denkmalschutz kënnen ze justifiéieren.
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Furthermore, these two chimneys, which no longer stand in their industrial context and have been cut back heavily, no longer meet our criteria enough, in particular the criterion of authenticity, to justify national heritage protection.
\nSitting of 2 December 2025, Eric Thill, Ministre de la Culture
\nOn 21 January 2026, in the debate on the bill creating an Observatoire de la culture, the Minister of Culture stated that the observatory informs policy rather than making it.
\n\n\nSeng Roll ass et net, Politick ze maachen, mee ganz kloer eis Politick ze informéieren.
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Its role is not to make policy, but very clearly to inform our policy.
\nSitting of 21 January 2026, Eric Thill, Ministre de la Culture
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