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The public debate will take place this autumn. Photo: Matic Zorman / Maison Moderne

Teacher training to be debated

A petition opposing the reform of teacher training has gathered enough signatures for a public debate. A second petition, seeking public financial support for parents caring for their children at home, just missed the threshold.

Ioanna Schimizzi • 07/29/2021

Archive photo shows Luxembourg health minister Paulette Lenert (LSAP) Romain Gamba / Maison Moderne

Lux secures new medical cannabis supplier

Jess Bauldry • 07/29/2021

Launched in 2018, GouvAlert will be revamped by the end of next year to better alert citizens Photo: Matic Zorman / Maison Moderne

New alert system in the works

Thierry Labro • 07/28/2021

Flooding on Place Dargent in Luxembourg on 15 July Photo: Matic Zorman / Maison Moderne

Government speeds up flood relief for businesses

Cordula Schnuer • 07/27/2021

On-demand large-scale testing is within the rules of the public tender agreement with Laboratoires Réunis, the government says Photo: Paperjam

On-demand large-scale testing legal, says minister

Cordula Schnuer • 07/27/2021

The EU has updated rules on moving cash and non-cash valuables across borders Shutterstock

WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Stricter rules to move valuables across borders

Delano.lu • 07/27/2021

Mobile testing units will visit hospitals and care homes over two weeks to increase the number of vaccinated staff SIP / Jean-Christophe Verhaegen

Push for care staff vaccines after report criticism

Cordula Schnuer • 07/27/2021

Fuel sales account for 83% of the revenue generated for the state at Luxembourg’s motorway service stations. (Photo: Matic Zorman/Maison Moderne)

Motorway service stations earned the state €64.5 million in 2020

Catherine Kurzawa • 07/27/2021

The revised ICF strategy responds to recent regulatory developments and reflects both Luxembourg’s own climate finance experience as well as good international practice. (c) 2017 petrmalinak/Shutterstock.

Lux allocates €200m to international climate finance

Abigail Okorodus • 07/26/2021

"The state is perfectly entitled to take the sanitary and hygienic measures it wants, but in the private life of people, which is a constitutional right, it has nothing to do", insisted Fernand Kartheiser, president of the parliamentary group of the ADR. (Photo: Romain Gamba/Maison Moderne)

Constitutional reform breaks promise to voters, says ADR

Ioanna Schimizzi • 07/26/2021

"I believe that managing a crisis like covid-19 always requires finding the right balance between individual freedoms on the one hand and the right measures to protect everyone's health, and I think we have managed to strike that balance." Library photo / Maison Moderne

Parliament needs in-house experts, pandemic has shown

Ioanna Schimizzi • 07/26/2021

How are the electronic communications of government members and senior officials protected? A question no one wants to answer, even if transparency is a cornerstone of national strategies on these issues. (Photo: Twitter account of Xavier Bettel)

Communication means used by “senior officials” come under the radar

Thierry Labro • 07/23/2021

From left to right: David Wagner, Myriam Cecchetti, Nathalie Oberweis and Marc Baum presented the parliamentary balance sheet of the Déi Lénk party on Thursday 22 July. (Photo: Romain Gamba/Maison Moderne)

Déi Lénk MPs zero in on poor crises management

Ioanna Schimizzi • 07/23/2021

Sector-specific greenhouse gas reduction targets have been set according to the “reduction potential” of each sector Photo: Shutterstock

Sector-specific objectives of climate law finally defined

Pierre Pailler and Delano.lu • 07/23/2021

The CovidCheck mobile application was launched on 10 June Photo: Matic Zorman / Maison Moderne

CovidCheck app update adds travel features

Jérémy Zabatta • 07/23/2021

Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi was one of the more than 50,000 spyware targets revealed by the Pegasus Project Photo: Mira Marjanovic

Countries like Lux complicit in spyware scandal, says Pegasus target

Cordula Schnuer • 07/23/2021

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