DP-North is very surprised to learn that the Centre Hospitalier du Nord (CHdN) has announced the 'temporary' closure of the maternity ward at Ettelbruck hospital with effect from 4 April. Another blow after the obstetrics unit in Wiltz had to close years ago.

Le Parti démocratique informe que Pierre Gramegna, ministre des Finances et du Budget, a annoncé sa volonté de démissionner de ses fonctions ministérielles pour des raisons personnelles.

On Tuesday, the honorary mayor of Echternach Mady Schaffner died at the age of 86.

With Paul Helminger, Luxembourg loses a politician who has strongly shaped the country and the city of Luxembourg. Paul Helminger was a politician who moved things. A man for whom modernization was not a slogan, but a task for which he committed himself wholeheartedly: as a diplomat, as chief of staff, as secretary of state, as deputy, as member of parliament, as mayor of Luxembourg-city, and as entrepreneur.

The 'Comité directeur' of the Democratic Party decided unanimously in its meeting on March 17th to propose Mr Marc Meyers to the government for the vacant post in the Council of State.