1. Luc Frieden led his party to victory, slightly increasing its vote share and maintaining its 21 seats, while the incumbent Bettel II Government lost its majority due to the decline of The Greens.
18 Facts About Luc Frieden
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Luc Frieden completed high school at the Athenee de Luxembourg and received thereafter an international university education in France, the UK and the US.
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Luc Frieden graduated in business law from Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.
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Luc Frieden obtained a master's degree in comparative law from Queens' College, Cambridge and a further Master of Laws from Harvard Law School.
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In 1994, Luc Frieden was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg for the Christian Democrats, becoming, at the age of thirty, the then youngest member of the House.
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Luc Frieden served as Minister of the Treasury and Budget from 1998 to 2009, as Minister of Defence from 2004 to 2006 and Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2013.
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For 15 years, Luc Frieden served as Governor of the World Bank and acted as chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in 2013.
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Luc Frieden joined Deutsche Bank as Vice Chairman in September 2014.
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Luc Frieden served as chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank Luxembourg.
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Luc Frieden has been a partner with the Luxembourgish law firm Elvinger Hoss Prussen since 2016.
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Luc Frieden led coalition talks between the CSV and the Democratic Party, and succeeded Xavier Bettel as Prime Minister on 17 November 2023.
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On 22 November 2023, Luc Frieden presented his government's program for the parliamentary term in the Chamber of Deputies.
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Luc Frieden's priorities include the massive recruitment of police officers and the development of video surveillance, the adoption of tax reform and an increased role for the private sector in healthcare.
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On 16 January 2024, news magazine Politico published an article where Luc Frieden stated his intent to build a better relationship with Viktor Orban and visit him, despite his opposition to the EU's support for Ukraine.
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On 26 February 2024 Luc Frieden travelled to Paris, where Emmanuel Macron was holding an emergency summit over the situation in Ukraine, as they had suffered the loss of Avdiivka.
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On 21 March 2024 at the Nuclear Energy Summit 2024 in Brussels, Luc Frieden declared an openness for nuclear power, breaking a largely held national consensus.
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Luc Frieden underlined that research of new nuclear technologies is important in his view.
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Luc Frieden married Dutch-born lawyer Marjolijne Droogleever Fortuyn, whom he met while studying at Cambridge, in 1992.