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Remote working needs to overcome certain legal obstacle, said employment minister Nicolas Schmit.Picture credit: Jerry Bunkers 

In response to a parliamentary question by Gusty Graas (DP), Schmit said that several working groups analysed the impact on traffic, taxation, employment law and social security law to study all the obstacles to remote working.

The Thionville mayor Pierre Cuny had put forward the idea of remote working for one day a week in a co-working space and called on Luxembourg companies to invest in such spaces. He argued that this would alleviate traffic by about 10,000 cars per day on the infamous motorway A31 from Thionville to Luxembourg.

However, minister Schmit did not see any reason for the Luxembourg employment minister to talk to Luxembourg businesses about creating such infrastructures, as the French proposal concerned building on French territory. He added that state subsidies for creating such co-working spaces on the French side of the border were not envisaged.