On Local Matters in these next couple of weeks, we give you some ideas how to not be too frustrated while passing holiday at home, let’s check out some activities to explore in summer in Luxembourg. We start this tour of the country in the south this week. On top of the hill, in the woods, in Esch, we check out the Déierepark, the zoo.
Climate crisis: Why Luxembourg's activists don't disturb
Why are Luxembourg’s climate activists so well-behaved? Whereas militants in other countries invent new forms of protest and intend to disrupt the regular functioning of society, Luxembourg’s activists stay quiet. In our interview on Local Matters, Sofia and Brice, members of the collective Rise for Climate Luxembourg tell us why they struggle to mobilize allies for more disruptive forms of protest.
Climate crisis: Traces of the drought
As the world’s climate activists rise up and chose more disruptive means to recall the urgency, in Luxembourg anyone disrupts the functioning of society - although drought and heatwaves leave traces in nature as Claudine Feltgen from the Asbl natur&emwelt explains. Local Matters this week focuses on climate change and climate activism.
Working poor: Lunch at the Vollekskichen
On Local Matters today, we had lunch at the Vollekskichen, a restaurant with low prices for people with a small budget.
Working poor: Interview with Carole Reckinger from Caritas
More and more people need to shop their groceries at the épicerie sociale. On Local Matters, Carole Reckinger, head of political campaigning for Caritas Luxembourg, tells us why.
Working poor: 13 percent of people are poor despite working
More than 13% of the population lives below the poverty threshold despite working. In our interview on Local Matters, economist Anne-Catherine Guio explains who is most affected by in-work-poverty.
Circular Economy: The BENU village
One week ago, the BENU Village officially opened their new restaurant – which is entirely composed of waste. In the BENU Sloow restaurant, all furniture and equipment is recycled and the food has been rescued; the cooks use only ingredients that would have been thrown away.
Circular Economy: The EBL's service Gutt Geschier
EBL’s service "Gutt Geschier" lends tools to anyone. Instead of buying tools, using them once and leaving them in cellars until they become rusty, people can rent them for one week - and for free. Check out this week’s feature on Local Matters on the circular economy.
Circular economy: A visit to the repaircafé
Coffee machines, vacuum cleaners, hairdryers: Once the Repaircafé in Mamer opens the doors, people carry in all kinds of electric devices that are not working anymore. At the repaircafé, volunteers try to fix them, and at the same time explain how. Local Matters this week is about the circular economy and presents some initiatives that are part of it - starting with the Repaircafé Letzebuerg.
News from the LGBTQ* scene: The queer archive
Séraphine Mirage shows us around in Rosa Letzebuerg's Queer archive. In the past years, the Asbl has started to collect items that tell stories about the history of queer culture and queer movements in Luxembourg. The archive is growing.
News from the LGBTQ* scene: The Rainbow Center
The Rainbow Center, Luxembourg's first queer culture centre, opened it's doors one month ago. It's time for a visit. In our interview on Local Matters, we ask project director Sandra Laborier what has happened so far and what we can expect soon.
News from the LGBTQ* scene: The Cahiers QGF
Luxembourg gets a brand new publication on queer and gender and feminist studies. The first edition of the Cahiers QGF will be published this month. On Local Matters, Sandy Artuso tells what readers can expect and which other activities the research collective LEQGF has done so far.
Municipal elections: VDL parties on security (pt.2)
People feel less and less safe in the city of Luxembourg and most parties do take security serious. Many want to introduce a local police unit, others aim to improve social services. On Local Matters today, we talk to the different parties about their plans in terms of security.
Municipal elections: VDL parties on security (pt.1)
Security is one of the most controversial issues in the city and gets mediatised - traditionally before the elections. Nevertheless, many people are concerned about security in the city. On Local Matters today, we check out how the parties aim to make the city of Luxembourg a safer place.
Municipal elections: VDL parties on citizens' participation
How do the parties in the City of Luxembourg aim to increase citizens' participation in local decision-making? For today's Local Matters, we have asked three parties about their plans, the green party déi Greng, the Pirates and Mir d'Vollek.
Municipal elections: VDL parties on mobility (pt.3)
To finish our round-up on the local parties' proposals on how to improve the mobility in and around Luxembourg-City, our last two guests to speak on Local Matters today come from the Pirates and the CSV.
Municipal elections: VDL parties on mobility (pt.2)
The time to decide has come. We have five days left until the municipal elections. On Local Matters today, we focus on the solutions that the different parties propose for the traffic problems in the city of Luxembourg. In this piece, we compare the ideas of three parties, the Democratic Party DP, the Green Party déi Greng and Mir d’Vollek, “We the people”.
Municipal elections: VDL parties on mobility (pt.1)
Exactly five days are left before the municipal elections on Sunday, it's time to decide. On Local Matters today, we talk about how the VDL parties imagine the mobility of the future. Our first guests come from the Luxembourg Socialist workers’ party LSAP and the Alternative Reform Party adr. Later today, we will add the other parties' ideas.
Municipal elections: The VDL parties on "Zesummeliewen" (pt.3)
On Local Matters, we have invited the VDL candidates for the socialist workers' party LSAP and for the governing Democratic Party DP to ask them how they want to bring the capital's society closer together.
Municipal elections: The VDL parties on "Zesummeliewen" (pt.2)
How do the parties plan to strengthen social ties and bring people closer together? That's this week's question on Local Matters. Our guests today are Ana Correia and Aseem Kshirsagar for the left party Déi Lenk and Tom Weidig for the Alternative Reform party ADR.