Emile Eicher News Today

On Wednesday 26 April 2023, a new edition of the Group for Exchange and Support on Integration at the Local level (GRESIL) was held at the Cultural Centre in Colmar-Berg and online via live-streaming.

In numerous Luxembourg communes, foreigners outnumber nationals. Their turnout in municipal elections, however, has historically been low. Integration minister Corinne Cahen (DP) and Emile Eicher, the president of the Syvicol union, discuss what’s at stake and why local matters.

What’s the best way to supervise municipalities without disrupting their autonomy? On Tuesday 31 January, home affairs minister Taina Bofferding and Syvicol president Emile Eicher presented a taste of the “smart” reforms coming into force on Wednesday 1 February.

Luxembourg municipalities at the start of 2023 will have to give their opinion on a new national master plan for spatial planning. City and communes union Syvicol says the project lacks clarity and applicability, on top of putting the autonomy of communes at risk.

Government and commune buildings should be heated to a maximum of 20 degrees, energy minister says

Chateau d'Urspelt is far from a seven-star exclusive resort - and only an hour's drive away from the airport

The Christian democrats have lost their wafer-thin majority in Clervaux after one of their councillors decided to become an independent member of the town council.

Author: Céline Spithoven (Tëlee)|Update: 23.01.2021 13:44 The aim is to put pressure on the Luxembourg government, which has not signed the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Shortly after midnight, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force after the 51 necessary states ratified the treaty. Luxembourg, however, is not one of them. Even today, victims of nuclear ex...

Ambassador J. Randolph Evans visited Clervaux on Sunday to commemorate the Battle of the Bulge and announce a U. S. Embassy grant to the Cercle D’Etudes Sur La Bataille Des Ardennes (CEBA). Because of Covid-19 restrictions, Clervaux was unable to host its annual public WWII commemoration, but CEBA arranged a small, private wreath-laying ceremony at Clervaux’s GI Memorial.  Ambassador Evans, Mayor Emile Eicher, CEBA President Erny Kohn and a small group of aldermen and CEBA members attend...

Luxembourg is set to hold a minute’s silence during next year’s national day festivities, to honour the people who died of the coronavirus during the pandemic.  A petition submitted to parliament received 4,975 signatures and as a result was debated in parliament by lawmakers and the government on Tuesday. The petition had initially asked for a moment’s remembrance on New Year’s Eve this year, but members of parliament didnt agree that this was the best moment. They instead offered to...