Perhaps it is a rare political feat that CSV Prime Minister Luc Frieden managed to embed the outcome of last week’s Tripartite negotiations into the narrative of “Fireneen. Mateneen” and national cohesion spun in his State of the Nation address. Without the help of CSV Finance Minister Gilles Roth, Deputy Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Economics Minister Lex Delles from the DP, this would probably not have been possible.
At a joint press conference in the State Ministry on Tuesday afternoon, the four ministers announced details of the Tripartite agreement they called the “Resilience Pact”, which the government signed with the social partners on Monday. Of course, it is thanks above all to those that an agreement was reached – the unions, because they finally gave up the structural minimum wage increase that they had vehemently demanded for months; the patronage for not insisting on reducing corporate tax by an additional two percentage points after last year’s reduction; but is content with the one percent that CSV and DP promised in their coalition agreement for this year.
