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Campaign posters started going up over the weekend, four weeks ahead of the 11 June local elections. Photo: Guy Wolff/Maison Moderne

Campaigning for local ballot kicks off

With election posters going up over the weekend, campaigning for the 11 June local ballot officially got underway across the country with some claims that a fair elections agreement has already been violated.

Cordula Schnuer • 15.05.2023

The Chamber of Deputies is aiming to vote on a reform of bankruptcy laws before the summer break. If the timeline fails, the reform faces more details--after 20 years of talks--as parliament will reconstitute following the October elections. Photo: Romain Gamba / Maison Moderne

Politics weekly: bankruptcy laws, abortion review, defence strategy

Cordula Schnuer • 12.05.2023

Prime minister Xavier Bettel (DP) and sustainable development minister Joëlle Welfring (déi Gréng) arriving for the 10 May press conference presenting the sustainability check. Photo: SIP / Emmanuel Claude

Government to check future laws for sustainable credentials

Cordula Schnuer • 10.05.2023

The minister of the interior, Taina Bofferding (LSAP), has published a toolkit to promote the implementation of tiny houses in municipalities. Photo: MINT

ARCHITECTURE + REAL ESTATE

New rules to better integrate tiny houses

Mathilde Obert • 08.05.2023

Lydia Polfer, Luxembourg City mayor (DP), seen during Paperjam+Delano Business Club election debate, 4 May 2023. Image: Maison Moderne

Watch Luxembourg City mayoral debate replay

Delano.lu • 08.05.2023

If you are unable to go to the polls to vote on 11 June, you can vote by post, but you must apply in advance. Archive photo: Mike Zenari

17 May, last deadline to apply for postal voting

Maëlle Hamma • 07.05.2023

Candidates from seven parties running in the June local elections in Luxembourg City went head-to-head during a roundtable on 4 May Photo: Eva Krins/Maison Moderne

10 takeaways from local elections roundtable

Cordula Schnuer • 05.05.2023

Prime minister Xavier Bettel with Vietnam’s Pham Minh Chính at the presidential palace in Hanoi, 4 May 2023. Photo: SIP / Jean-Christophe Verhaegen

Politics weekly: EU voting, water levels, Asia delegations

Cordula Schnuer • 05.05.2023

The CGFP lists its demands in the context of the regulation of working time in the civil service. Archive photo: Matic Zorman/Maison Moderne

Working time regulation: the demands of the civil service union

Paperjam.lu • 04.05.2023

The roundtable will discuss party positions on key issues in the capital Photo: Maison Moderne

Tune in Thursday evening as city candidates go head-to-head in roundtable

Delano.lu • 03.05.2023

The minister of mobility and public works, François Bausch and Gil Georges, mobility planning department, detailed the ambitions of the digital mobility observatory. Photo: Maison Moderne

New digital mobility observatory presented

Léna Fernandes • 03.05.2023

This law has not failed to provoke debate. Those in favour see it as a significant step forward, but also identify a number of shortcomings, while many in the business community have been sceptical. Photo: CHD/Flickr

Whistleblower protection law debated and adopted

Pierre Pailler • 03.05.2023

OGBL president Nora Back was the only one of the main trade union leaders to call for a reduction in working hours. With equal pay. Photo: OGBL Twitter account

May Day: what unites the unions and what divides them

Thierry Labro • 02.05.2023

A concept presented by the government on 28 April to legalise the sale of recreational cannabis has several hurdles to clear before it can be put into action. Photo: Shutterstock

Legal pot plan foresees 14 dispensaries in Luxembourg

Cordula Schnuer • 28.04.2023

A police union, the SNPGL this week said that rules for police officers to use bodycams are becoming too complicated, defeating the purpose of the technology. Photo: Shutterstock

Politics weekly: bodycams, working hours, decentralised healthcare

Cordula Schnuer • 28.04.2023

“This study shows that the effects of a reduction in working time differ according to the socio-demographic group to which a person belongs, the stage in his or her career path and the occupation in which he or she works,” Thuc Uyen Nguyen-Thi said in an interview. She is a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (Liser) and coordinator of study on the impact of reducing the number of hours worked each week. The study was presented to the media on 25 April 2023 and will be presented to the Chamber of Deputies on 27 April 2023. Photo: Liser

Reduction in weekly working time “would be difficult to implement”: labour researcher

Julien Carette • 27.04.2023

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