Claus Nehring

Luxembourg likes to adorn itself with the image of a modern, dynamic state. But if you look beneath the glittering surface of our financial center facades - or rather: into our rivers and streams - you see a picture of stagnation. While politicians talk about sustainability in Sunday speeches, the hard figures from the EU Commission and the European Environment…

Luxembourg is currently often described as a company, with Prime Minister Luc Frieden deliberately presenting himself as the pragmatic manager of a modern state. But who is actually planning beyond the next legislative period?

Fuel prices are rising, and reflexively demands are being made again: The state should intervene, cap prices, ease the burden. As immediately as possible, as comprehensively as possible. Sounds caring. But on closer inspection, it is one thing above all: short-sighted. Let's take a look at the reality.

Hand on heart: we all love vacations. And we all love security. But recently, a trend seems to have emerged that dangerously blurs the boundaries between personal responsibility, corporate greed and state welfare. It's about the expectation that the state - in other words, all of us - will step in as a kind of "free comprehensive insurance" if your…

The Iran conflict is more than just a regional war. It is a race against time and for the most sensitive pinholes of the global economy. But the real battlefield is not in the Iranian desert - it is on the trade routes of the global economy. Between Hormuz and Suez, the coming weeks will decide whether the crisis escalates…

The EU is dead.... Long live the EU! The Brussels water head is frozen in its own bureaucracy. The structural agony becomes particularly clear when you look at the Commission's inability to transform itself from a mere regulatory authority into a geopolitical player. It is time for a radical liberation: the initiative for a new core Europe.

Our society cannot function without migration. In view of a rapidly ageing European population and the increasing shortage of skilled workers in key areas such as P􀏐lege, construction and logistics, migration is becoming a social and economic necessity. The current European legal framework focuses strongly on highly skilled immigration, but falls short: the main need lies in the practical professions.…

The alarming number of 1,884 young people who leave the Luxembourg school system every year without a qualification or prospects is more than just a statistic - it is a symptom of a profound social disorientation. FOKUS. does not primarily see this as a failure of the education system, but rather the consequence of a culture that shuns effort, distrusts…