In the press
After ticking off several key election promises in its first 30 months in office, the government’s three major policy speeches in 2026 revealed a surprising lack of new ideas.
Xavier Bettel’s annual foreign policy speech to parliament on Tuesday was the last of the government’s three major policy statements of the year.
But like Finance Minister Gilles Roth’s budget earlier in October, and Prime Minister Luc Frieden’s State of the Nation outlook in May, its content contained very little of substance that was new.