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Swearing-In of Ms Nena Sand at the national Institute for Archaeological Research On July 28, 2022, Minister of Culture Sam Tanson swore in Ms. Nena

The Minister for Family Affairs and Integration, Corinne Cahen, the Minister for Home Affairs, Taina Bofferding, and the Minister of Justice, Sam Tanson, are pleased with yesterday's vote in the Chamber of Deputies on the law amending the amended electoral law of 18 February 2003.

On the occasion of the public celebration of the birthday of HRH the Grand Duke, members of the Grand Duke's family and the government attended the festivities organised in Lellingen (municipality of Kiischpelt), Esch-sur-Alzette and Luxembourg City on 22nd and 23rd June 2022.

Today, the Minister for Home Affairs, Taina Bofferding, and the Minister of Justice, Sam Tanson, presented the details of the modernisation of the celebration of civil marriage and partnership (PACS).

Partly as a sign of its change of name, the Service des sites et monuments nationaux, now the Institut national pour le patrimoine architectural – INPA or National Institute for Architectural Heritage, has just published a book documenting 20 restoration projects on buildings belonging to the rural and urban architectural heritage.

On April 5th 2022, Minister for Culture Sam Tanson received Bettina Steinbrügge as she takes the office as director of the Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean.

At the invitation of minister for Culture Sam Tanson, a number of delegations present in Luxembourg for the meeting of the Council of the European Union of ministers for Culture took the opportunity to visit Esch-Belval in the context of the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022.

With the Council exceptionally held in Luxembourg, the EU ministers of Culture resumed the discussions begun in early March on the measures adopted and to be adopted in support of Ukrainian artists and creative professionals - both refugees and non-refugees - and the cultural world.

On March 28, 2022 Minister of Justice, Vincent Van Quickenborne, hosted a meeting of the "Vendôme Group", in which the French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Luxembourg Ministers of Justice participated.

In the context of the recent vote of the new cultural heritage law, Minister of Culture Sam Tanson is pleased to invite all interested parties to one of four presentation and information meetings on the new paradigms that will apply to the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage in Luxembourg.

On 21 February 2022, the Minister of Justice, Sam Tanson, presented the reform of the Luxembourg Business Registers (LBR)*.

On Thursday 10 February 2022, the new law on cultural heritage was voted by the Chamber of Deputies. It is an important step towards the protection and enhancement of Luxembourg's cultural heritage.

On 27 January 2022, the Minister of Culture, Sam Tanson, presented the draft of the bill n°7948 on the institution of a cultural leave and the modification of: 1° of the Labour Code; 2° of the modified law of the 16th of April 1979 establishing the general status of State civil servants; 3° of the modified law of the 24th of December 1985 establishing the general status of communal civil servants.

On 8 December 2021, the awards ceremony for the National Literary Competition 2021 took place at the National Literature Centre in the presence of the winners. Josée Hansen from the literature and publishing unit of the Ministry of Culture represented Sam Tanson, minister of Culture, who was unable to attend.

The government has just passed two financing bills to support the realization of the first phase of the new "NeiSchmelz" residential area in Dudelange with half a billion euros. In the center of the city of Dudelange, on an area of around 36 hectares, the former steel industry wasteland will be converted into a modern and ecological city district with a high quality of life and housing.