A petition calling for Luxembourgish to be strengthened as an integration language by making it compulsory to learn has gathered just over 6,300 signatures, more than 800 above the threshold required to trigger a public debate in the Chamber of Deputies, with 30 days still remaining online.
All signatures will still need to be formally validated, but a plenary debate in the Chamber now appears highly likely.
The petitioner argues that, in their view, there are a rising number of situations in everyday life where choosing to communicate in Luxembourgish is becoming difficult or even impossible, a trend felt not only in the public sector but across many areas of daily life.
The goal of making Luxembourgish the primary integration language is not, the petitioner argues, about exclusion, but about assuring social cohesion and guaranteeing that Luxembourgish is preserved as a living national language in day-to-day life.
