Local Matters ON TOUR

Differdange debates where to accommodate the asylum seekers. The current building at Thillenberg is in a bad condition. The heating doesn't work and the building needs renovation. The Green party suggests to relocate the refugees to the large building next door, the former hospital. The mayor has a different view. 

Local Matters is on tour this year. Every week, we travel to another part of Luxembourg - to explore what's happening locally.

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LM on tour: Where to put the Differdange refugees?

Local sports history, nostalgia and success - the Stade de Thillenberg is an iconic place. On Local Matters today, we dive into the history of this stadium.

LM on tour: Football history in the Stade de Thillenberg

The National museum of Resistance and Human Rights in Esch was reopened last week, after almost 6 years of renovation works. On Local Matters, we've had a visit.

LM on tour: The National Resistance Museum has been reopened

In the end of January, the townhall of Junglinster caught fire. The interior of the old farmhouse burned down, and it took 90 firefighters and 15 hours to extinguish the fire. The roof collapsed into the municipal archives and got fuelled by loads of paper to burn. On Local Matters this week, we take this as an occasion to talk about archiving. Luckily in Junglinster, no important documents have burnt. Nevertheless, some communes have started focusing more on the relevance of their municipal archives after the incident.

Archiving: Six weeks after the blaze in Junglinster

In the past years, digitisation has been a huge challenge for the National Archives. The archivists have been digitising paper documents, while planning how to store documents that exist only online. For the National Archives, digitisation is an opportunity to make archives more accessible. In our interview on Local Matters, the director of the National Archives Josée Kirps explains the recent strategies and challenges. 

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Archiving: Making archives accessible through digitisation

Abortion rights are debated again. A couple of weeks ago, the left party Déi Lenk submitted a law proposal asking for abortion rights to be enshrined in Luxembourg's constitution. On European level in the meantime, activists are collecting signatures to achieve access to safe abortions for all women in the EU. Responses from Luxembourg however have been scarce although women fight the same fight here. 

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Local Matters: Ensure access to free and safe abortions

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Local Matters: Ensure access to free and safe abortions

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