Jean Asselborn

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Jean Asselborn (2017)

Jean Asselborn (born April 27, 1949 in Steinfort , Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourg politician .

He is a member of the Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei (LSAP). He has been Luxembourg's Foreign Minister since July 30, 2004, and Minister for Immigration and Asylum since 2014. Until December 2013, Jean Asselborn was also Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg.

Jean Asselborn is currently the longest-serving foreign minister in the European Union . In October 2012, under Asselborn's leadership, Luxembourg received a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council for the period from 2013 to 2014 for the first time .

Life and work

Jean Asselborn began his professional career in 1967 as an employee at Uniroyal in Steinfort. He was involved in the trade union movement and was elected representative of the youth department of the Luxembourg Workers' Union , the predecessor of today's Onofhangegen trade union bond Lëtzebuerg .

In 1968, Jean Asselborn became a municipal employee of the City of Luxembourg, but moved back to Steinfort in 1969 to also work as an employee of the municipal administration.

In 1976 Jean Asselborn attended evening courses and received his diplôme de fin d'études secondaires (comparable to the German Abitur ) from the Atheneum Luxembourg . He then became head of administration at the Steinfort intercommunal hospital.

Asselborn enrolled in law at Nancy II University . He received his diploma in private law in October 1981.

Political career

Municipal offices

From 1982 to 2004 Asselborn was mayor of his native Steinfort .

Parliamentary offices

At the national level, Jean Asselborn was elected to the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1984 as a member of the Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei (LSAP) . In 1989 he became chairman of the parliamentary group of the Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei (LSAP) until he took over the party chairmanship in 1997. He held this office until 2004. From 1999 to 2004 Jean Asselborn was Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies. At the same time he was a member of the Committee of the Regions and Vice-President of the Party of European Socialists from 2000 to 2004 .

Government offices

After the elections on June 13, 2004, Jean Asselborn became Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration. He joined the government on July 31, 2004.

In the elections of June 7, 2009, the CSV-LSAP coalition was confirmed in office and Jean Asselborn remained in the offices of Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

In December 2013 he was succeeded by Etienne Schneider as Vice Prime Minister and Jean Asselborn became Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Minister for Immigration and Asylum in the new coalition government between the Democratic Party (DP), the LSAP and the Green Party ("déi Gréng ").

Political statements and activities

In September 2016, Asselborn's statement caused a sensation throughout the European Union that Hungary treats refugees almost worse than animals, so that the country should be excluded from the EU. His Hungarian counterpart, Péter Szijjártó, responded immediately with the words: “It was already known that Jean Asselborn was a disinterested figure.” Asselborn's statement was also criticized by Frank-Walter Steinmeier , Manfred Weber , Rebecca Harms and the Austrian Foreign Minister, among others Sebastian Kurz .

On November 7, 2016, Asselborn compared the actions of the Turkish leadership against opposition activists and their dealings with dismissed state employees with "methods that were used during the Nazi regime ". In September 2018, Asselborn accused the Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini of using "the methods and tones of the fascists of the 1930s" after Salvini said at an EU ministerial meeting in Vienna that he would rather work to ensure that the Italian and European young people to bring more children into the world because he does not want new slaves; and without Asselborn's knowledge had a video recording of a discussion on the subject of migration made and subsequently published it. With his testimony, Salvini compared African migrants with slaves.

Private

Jean Asselborn is married.

Honors

On December 14, 2010, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his outstanding services to German-Luxembourg relations and the close European cooperation between Germany and Luxembourg .

In October 2013, Jean Asselborn was appointed Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur of France.

In 2014, the Saar state press conference awarded him the Golden Duck media prize .

The Franco-German Journalism Prize (DFJP) honors Jean Asselborn with the Great Media Prize in 2016.

literature

Web links

Commons : Jean Asselborn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hungary's Foreign Minister on allegations: "Asselborn is arrogant and frustrated" . tagesschau.de , September 13, 2016
  2. ↑ Hungary's return carriage: Asselborn "is a non-serious figure" at derstandard.at, accessed on September 17, 2016
  3. ↑ Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn's call for Hungary to be excluded from the EU is causing cross-party trouble on euractiv.de, accessed on September 17, 2016
  4. ↑ Asselborn meets EU-wide criticism - the expulsion of a country from the EU is not legally possible on diepresse.com, accessed on September 17, 2016
  5. ↑ Deutschlandfunk .de: Interview
  6. ↑ zeit.de
  7. ↑ Call for consequences for Salvini's recording on orf.at, accessed on September 18, 2018
  8. ↑ Spiegel Online: EU ministers apparently secretly filmed by colleagues - The Salvini scandal - a trap? , September 15, 2018
  9. ↑ Handelsblatt: Salvini makes further demands for the German-Italian refugee pact , September 14, 2018
  10. ↑ Reuters.com: Italy's Salvini likens African immigrants to 'slaves' , September 14, 2018
  11. ↑ Avarice and oppressors: Germany hater Asselborn gets started
  12. ^ State press conference Saar
personal data
SURNAME Asselborn, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg politician, member of the Chamber and Foreign Minister
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinfort , Luxembourg