The European Union and its trade policy returned to the Chamber through the whole 2023–2028 legislature, from the topical hour on the corporate sustainability due diligence directive in February 2024 to the debate on green claims in May 2026. The sittings covered the due diligence and Omnibus packages, unanimity on tax at EU level, the announced US tariffs on steel and aluminium, the Mercosur agreement, the trade deal between the EU and the United States, European payment systems, and environmental claims on consumer products. The quotes below are taken verbatim from the Compte rendu officiel of each sitting.
\nOn 28 February 2024, in the topical hour on the EU corporate sustainability due diligence directive, Christophe Hansen stated his party's commitment to a working internal market without discrimination between companies.
\n\n\nMir stinn awer och als CSV zu engem europäesche Bannemaart, dee funktionéiert, an ouni Diskriminatioun vu Betriber, deemno wou se an der Europäescher Unioun schaffen an ugesidelt sinn.
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But as the CSV we also stand for a European internal market that works, and without discrimination of companies according to where in the European Union they operate and are established.
\nSitting of 28 February 2024, Christophe Hansen, CSV
\nOn 29 October 2025, in the foreign policy debate on EU trade policy and Mercosur, Laurent Zeimet supported the Mercosur agreement.
\n\n\nMam Mercosur-Accord schafe mer nei Chancen a mir sollten eis méi trauen, Chancen ze gesinn, amplaz ëmmer nëmmen aus Angscht viru Risike Chancen ze verpassen.
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With the Mercosur agreement we create new opportunities, and we should dare more to see opportunities instead of always missing them out of fear of risks.
\nSitting of 29 October 2025, Laurent Zeimet, CSV
\nOn 12 February 2026, in the expanded question on European dependence on American payment networks, Laurent Mosar asked why Europe cannot set up a European Airbus of payment methods.
\n\n\nAn et freet ee sech eigentlech, firwat mer net hei esou eng Aart europäeschen Airbus vun de Bezuelungsmëttel kéinten en Place setzen?
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And one really wonders why we could not set up a kind of European Airbus of payment methods here.
\nSitting of 12 February 2026, Laurent Mosar, CSV
\nOn 25 April 2024, during the vote on a budget motion asking the government to keep unanimity in EU tax matters, Gusty Graas stated his party's opposition to ending unanimity on tax at EU level.
\n\n\nAn ech kann Iech elo scho vorab soen, datt d’Demokratesch Partei dergéint ass, datt den Eestëmmegkeetsprinzipp, wat fiskal Froen ubelaangt, um europäeschen Niveau soll opgehuewe ginn.
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And I can tell you already in advance that the Democratic Party is against the principle of unanimity in tax matters being abolished at European level.
\nSitting of 25 April 2024, Gusty Graas, DP
\nOn 29 October 2025, in the foreign policy debate on EU trade policy and Mercosur, Gusty Graas stated his party's conditional support for Mercosur.
\n\n\nEppes ass och kloer fir eis als Demokratesch Partei: Mir stinn engem Ofkommes Mercosur net an de Féiss, mee wat fir eis wichteg ass, ass, datt awer elementar europäesch Standarden do respektéiert ginn.
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One thing is also clear for us as the Democratic Party: we do not stand in the way of a Mercosur agreement, but what matters to us is that basic European standards are respected in it.
\nSitting of 29 October 2025, Gusty Graas, DP
\nOn 28 February 2024, in the topical hour on the EU corporate sustainability due diligence directive, Franz Fayot argued that the directive helps rather than harms the competitiveness of Luxembourg companies.
\n\n\nÉischtens si mer der Meenung, datt e gutt ass fir d’Kompetitivitéit vun eise Betriber, contrairement zu deem, wat een oft héiert, och vu verschiddene Patronatssäiten, well mer iwwerzeegt sinn, dass Betriber, déi keng eethesch Liwwerketten hunn, muer wäerten am Desavantage si par rapport zu deenen aneren.
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First, we take the view that it is good for the competitiveness of our companies, contrary to what one often hears, also from some employer quarters, because we are convinced that companies without ethical supply chains will tomorrow be at a disadvantage compared to the others.
\nSitting of 28 February 2024, Franz Fayot, LSAP
\nOn 29 October 2025, in the foreign policy debate on the trade deal struck between the EU and the United States, Yves Cruchten criticised that deal.
\n\n\nDe sougenannten „Deal“ tëscht der EU an den USA war keen akzeptabelt Verhandlungsresultat – dat war eng Erpressung.
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The so-called deal between the EU and the USA was not an acceptable negotiating result: it was blackmail.
\nSitting of 29 October 2025, Yves Cruchten, LSAP
\nOn 28 February 2024, in the topical hour on the EU corporate sustainability due diligence directive, Fernand Kartheiser argued that due diligence rules belong at EU or OECD level rather than in national law.
\n\n\nMir hätte gär, datt dat um Niveau EU oder OECD gereegelt gëtt – do gehéiert et hin –, well mir wëlle keng konkurrenziell Nodeeler.
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We would like this to be regulated at EU or OECD level, that is where it belongs, because we do not want competitive disadvantages.
\nSitting of 28 February 2024, Fernand Kartheiser, ADR
\nOn 20 March 2025, during the vote on a motion asking the government to defend the Green Deal and the supply-chain directive against the Commission's Omnibus package, Tom Weidig welcomed the Omnibus deregulation and announced a vote against the motion.
\n\n\nDuerfir begréisse mir, datt den Omnibus vereinfacht a sënnvoll dereguléiert, a stëmme géint dës Motioun vun der LSAP.
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That is why we welcome that the Omnibus simplifies and sensibly deregulates, and we vote against this motion from the LSAP.
\nSitting of 20 March 2025, Tom Weidig, ADR
\nOn 28 February 2024, in the topical hour on the EU corporate sustainability due diligence directive, Sam Tanson stated that Luxembourg as a rich country carries responsibility towards the people who produce for it.
\n\n\nMir hunn eng grouss Verantwortung als räicht Land par rapport zu deene Mënschen, déi fir ons produzéieren an déi an deene Länner liewen.
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We have a great responsibility as a rich country towards the people who produce for us and who live in those countries.
\nSitting of 28 February 2024, Sam Tanson, déi gréng
\nOn 21 May 2026, in the debate on the bill transposing the EU directive on empowering consumers for the green transition, Joëlle Welfring cited a figure on how many environmental claims on products are vague or misleading.
\n\n\nLaut den Zuele vum Conseil ass méi wéi d’Hallschent vun den Ëmweltbehaaptungen op Produiten entweeder vag, täuschend oder guer net noweisbar.
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According to the Council's figures, more than half of the environmental claims on products are either vague, misleading or not provable at all.
\nSitting of 21 May 2026, Joëlle Welfring, déi gréng
\nOn 12 February 2025, in the topical hour on relations with the United States and the announced US tariffs on steel and aluminium, Sven Clement warned that the tariff exchange could end in a trade war costly to both sides.
\n\n\nEt kéint also op eppes wéi en Handelskrich erauslafen, bei deem béid Säiten, d’USA, mee eeben och Europa, vill ze verléieren hunn.
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It could therefore end in something like a trade war, in which both sides, the USA but also Europe, have a lot to lose.
\nSitting of 12 February 2025, Sven Clement, Piraten
\nOn 25 April 2024, during the vote on a budget motion asking the government to keep unanimity in EU tax matters, David Wagner argued that ending the veto would allow sounder tax policies across the EU.
\n\n\nDat heescht u sech, wann de Veto verschwanne géif, kéinte mer vläicht méi gesond Steierpoliticken duerchsetzen iwwerall an der Europäescher Unioun, un déi eis Konkurrente sech jo dann och missten halen.
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That means, in fact, if the veto disappeared we could perhaps push through sounder tax policies everywhere in the European Union, which our competitors would then also have to follow.
\nSitting of 25 April 2024, David Wagner, déi Lénk
\nOn 14 May 2025, when the government's support for the EU-Mercosur agreement was questioned after the declaration, Marc Baum stated who he thinks will gain from the agreement.
\n\n\nVum Mercosur-Ofkommes wäerte virun allem déi déck Agrarmultinationalle profitéieren.
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It is above all the big agricultural multinationals that will profit from the Mercosur agreement.
\nSitting of 14 May 2025, Marc Baum, déi Lénk
\nOn 12 February 2025, in the topical hour on relations with the United States, the Prime Minister stated that Europe agrees the Commission must react with similar measures if tariffs come.
\n\n\nAn do si mer eis relativ eeneg an Europa, datt, wann Tariffer kommen, dann d’Europäesch Kommissioun, an där hirer Kompetenz d’Handelspolitick läit, och mat änleche Moossname muss reagéieren.
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And on that we are fairly united in Europe: if tariffs come, then the European Commission, which holds the competence for trade policy, must react with similar measures.
\nSitting of 12 February 2025, Luc Frieden, Premier ministre
\nOn 29 October 2025, in the foreign policy debate on EU trade policy, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade defended the current Mercosur text.
\n\n\nMee dee Mercosur, dee mer haut um Dësch hunn, ass net dee Mercosur, dee mer nach virun zwee Joer um Dësch haten.
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But the Mercosur we have on the table today is not the Mercosur we had on the table two years ago.
\nSitting of 29 October 2025, Xavier Bettel, Ministre des Affaires étrangères et du Commerce extérieur
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