Luxembourg’s new sports minister has instructed a lawyer to check if the agreement signed by her predecessor on the planned sports museum was subject to correct public procedure, Prime Minister Luc Frieden said Monday.
Former Sports Minister Georges Mischo resigned in December after reported government infighting over the planned museum. It was reported that the finance ministry was pushing for a review of the project. Reporter.lu said that the ministry had “put the project on hold until further notice – and wants to have it legally examined”.
Frieden told the French daily that the paper Mischo signed on the sports museum was “a document of which the government council had no knowledge”.
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Mischo’s resignation was not linked to the planned museum which was slated to open in 2028, with Frieden saying that the time that his stepping down “has nothing to do with one particular file”.
The premier said again on Monday to Le Quotidien that there is no evidence of misconduct on Mischo’s part.
“But the general circumstances made his life as a minister extremely difficult. I therefore understand his decision,” Frieden said.
The prime minister also said that the government would answer all of parliament’s questions on the museum plans and that a committee had collected questions on the project on the day of Mischo’s resignation and passed them to the government. Mischo’s successor, Martine Hansen, took office on 11 December.
It is not clear what the future of the project is, but officials in Esch, where the museum was set to be built, said the museum is still a possibility. This comes after Mischo said before his resignation that he was scrapping the proposed location for it.
(This story was originally published in the Luxemburger Wort, translated using AI and edited by Kate Oglesby.)
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