The Water Management Office (Administration de la gestion de l’eau – AGE) is celebrating its 20th anniversary, among other things with a new logo. The creation of such an office was a long-standing demand of the Mouvement Ecologique; it was undoubtedly absolutely necessary in view of the challenges in water management.

After an exciting discussion, the EU Environment Council finally adopted the Nature Restoration Law (NRL) today, taking the last step towards making this long-awaited proposal law. This result is a great victory for nature, climate protection, citizens and the future of Europe.

In his first speech on the state of the nation, the Prime Minister emphasized that the central responsibility of politics is to make decisions today to shape the future.

The Mouvement Ecologique has been approached several times about its analysis of the results of the European elections.

A study presented on Monday by the Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) and the environmental organisation Global 2000 has revealed an alarming contamination of groundwater and rivers by the little-known and largely unregulated “perennial chemical” trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). The Mouvement Ecologique contributed water samples from Luxembourg to this study, which unfortunately are also part of the alarming statistics: All ground and surface waters tested in the study from ten EU countries (6 and 23 respectively) show house-high TFA levels.

As the level of detail in the election programmes of the various political parties varies greatly in the run-up to the EU elections, the Mouvement Ecologique decided not to carry out a general analysis of the programmes. Instead, specific questions were addressed to the parties in order to recognise different attitudes.

At the end of April, the Mouvement Ecologique and its regional sections in Mersch & surroundings and the Alzette valley invited people to the presentation of the renaturation project of the Mamer and the Uelzecht at the former school in Beringen.

The preliminary draft of the national energy and climate plan (PNEC) is currently being revised and discussed in the relevant parliamentary committee. The government has unexpectedly changed its mind, which could have significant consequences for achieving Luxembourg’s climate targets.

On 68 richly illustrated pages, you will see an impressive variety of initiatives and projects undertaken by a whole range of volunteers, supported by a small group of staff.

Recently, the European Parliament adopted the so-called ‘right to repair’. The aim of this directive is to remove obstacles that make repairs more difficult. Luxembourg must also implement this directive in the next few years.

The Mouvement Ecologique recently had a stimulating two-hour exchange with Agriculture Minister Martine Hansen and her officials.

” To Change Direction towards Social Justice How unfairly wealth is distributed and what should be done about it ” was the title of an online event organised by Mouvement Ecologique with Action Solidarité Tiers Monde on 15 May 2024. The guest speaker was Manuel Schmitt, social inequality officer at Oxfam Germany (*).