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SUBJECT: LUXEMBOURG - BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NEW COALITION 
GOVERNMENT 
 
REF: A. LUXEMBOURG 193 B. LUXEMBOURG 137 
 
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SUMMARY 
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¶1. (SBU) Biographic and background information on Luxembourg's new 
coalition government announced July 20 follows.  Prime Minister 
Jean-Claude Juncker has been in office since 1982, providing an 
extraordinary degree of foreign policy consistency and assurance to 
the US-GOL bilateral relationship.  If Luxembourg obtains the 
non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council in 2013-2014, FM Jean 
Asselborn would likely be Luxembourg's representative.  The Minister 
of Finance and Budget, Luc Frieden, is a former Fulbright Scholar 
who studied Law at Harvard, coincidentally, at the same time as 
First Lady Michelle Obama.  The new Minister of Defense, Jean-Marie 
Halsdorf, is expected to pursue the reform and expansion of the Army 
which had been initiated by his predecessors.  After his first 
meeting with seven NATO member Ministers of Defense, Halsdorf 
agreed, in principle, not to abandon the troubled Airbus A-400M 
military transport plane project.  End Summary. 
 
 
 
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Jean-Claude Juncker: Prime Minister, Treasury Minister, and Minister 
for Administrative Simplification 
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¶2. (SBU) Juncker and his party improved upon their outstanding 
results of 2004 by winning five additional seats in Parliament in 
the June 2009 elections.   The Juncker-Asselborn (II) Cabinet is 
practically a continuation of its predecessor, with a few shifts in 
portfolios and the replacement of three Ministers.  Juncker obtained 
the portfolio of Treasury in order to remain President of the 
Eurogroup.  He took on the portfolio of "Administrative 
Simplification" to show that cutting red tape is a priority for the 
new cabinet. 
 
-In recent years, there has been speculation that PM Juncker could 
become the next President of the European Council, a position that 
is expected to be created once the Lisbon Treaty is adopted by all 
27 EU members.  Juncker has expressed interest in the position. 
 
-In government since 1982, he has at various times held the 
portfolios for Labor, Finance and Budget.  He has been Prime 
Minister since 1995.  Juncker is, at age 55, the EU leader with the 
greatest number of years seniority amongst his peers.  He became 
politically active as a member of the Christian Social Party (CSV) 
in 1974.  He attracted the attention of party leaders due to his 
talents as an orator and his sharp analytical mind when he became 
the party's parliamentary secretary in October 1979.  Thereafter, he 
rose swiftly to positions of prominence.  When a government post 
became available in December 1982, the Minister of Finance at the 
time, Jacques Santer, persuaded Prime Minister Pierre Werner to 
allow the young Jean-Claude Juncker to be appointed, at age 27, as 
State Secretary for Labor and Social Security. 
 
-Juncker's career nearly ended after a serious road accident in the 
autumn of 1989.  He was in critical condition and in a coma for two 
weeks but recovered with limited, long-term effects.  He recently 
spoke publicly of having to live with the lingering physical effects 
of the accident, including a slight limp.  In September 2004, 
Juncker became the first elected and permanent President of the 
Eurogroup (those countries using the Euro).  Having been governor of 
the World Bank from 1989 to 1995, Jean-Claude Juncker has been 
Governor of the International Monetary Fund and Governor of the 
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) since 1995. 
 
 
-Juncker is married to Christiane Frising.  They have no children. 
 
 
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Jean Asselborn: Vice-Prime Minister and Foreign Minister 
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¶3. (SBU) After the June 2009 elections, FM Asselborn's Luxembourg 
Socialist Works Party (LSAP) remained with PM Juncker's Christian 
Social Party in a coalition government.  Asselborn was re-appointed 
Foreign Minister without Nicolas Schmit as his delegate Minister for 
Foreign Affairs.  Asselborn now handles the additional, and more 
technical dossier, of the World Trade Organization. 
 
-He is personally committed to using the EU's influence as a force 
for peace and stability, particularly in the Balkans and the Middle 
East, two regions in which Asselborn has been eager to be engaged. 
If Luxembourg obtains the non-permanent seat in the UN Security 
 
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Council in 2013-2014, FM Asselborn would likely be Luxembourg's 
representative. 
 
-Asselborn takes a principled position, particularly on Human 
Rights-related issues, but is also a pragmatist known for his candor 
and sense of humor.  Asselborn grew up in a working-class family and 
worked in a chemical factory prior to obtaining his formal 
advanced-level education.  He took evening classes while working as 
a local city official, and graduated with a judiciary law degree 
from the University of Nancy (France). 
 
-Prior to his commitment to the Socialist Party, Asselborn became 
involved in the trade union movement and was elected to the post of 
youth representative of the Federation of Luxembourg Workers, 
precursor to the current OGB-L (Independent Federation of Trade 
Unions of Luxembourg).  Asselborn spent much of his professional 
career in his native town of Steinfort, a small town on the Belgian 
border through which General Patton's Army passed en route to 
Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.  Asselborn has been a 
strong supporter of the Liberty Road Movement. 
 
-Asselborn served 1968 to 1980 as a local administration clerk 
before being elected Mayor of Steinfort in 1982.  Elected to the 
Chamber of Deputies in 1984 from the southern region, Asselborn was 
re-elected in 1989 and then became leader of the parliamentary group 
until 1997, when he became the party's president. 
 
-Asselborn is a cycling enthusiast (he is spending his 2009 vacation 
cycling with his good friend and political ally, German FM 
Steinmeier). 
 
-He is married to Sylvie Huber, a counselor at the Steinfort town 
hall.  They have two daughters. 
 
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Jean-Marie Halsdorf: Minister of Defense and Interior Minister, 
including Country Planning for the Grand Region 
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¶4. (SBU) The selection of Jean-Marie Halsdorf to replace Jean-Louis 
Schiltz as MOD was unexpected.  Halsdorf is expected to pursue the 
Army's reform and expansion initiated by his predecessors.  After 
his first meeting with seven NATO MOD Ministers, Halsdorf agreed not 
to abandon the troubled Airbus A400M military transport plane 
project. 
 
-He qualified as a Doctor of Pharmacy at the University Louis 
Pasteur in Strasbourg early in the 1980s.  He practiced his 
profession at several pharmacies and hospitals, including the 
Luxembourg Clinic Sacre-CQur.  Halsdorf was first elected to the 
Chamber of Deputies (from the southern region) in 1994. 
 
-Deeply involved in local politics but also in issues relating to 
health and social security, Halsdorf was elected Mayor of Petange in 
¶2000.  Petange was the first Luxembourg town liberated by Americans 
troops on September 9, 1944.  In 2000, Halsdorf became the Secretary 
General of Syvicol (the Association of Luxembourg Towns and 
Municipalities).  In his capacity as mayor and Secretary General of 
Syvicol, Halsdorf  contributed to Embassy Luxembourg's outreach 
efforts to other Luxembourg mayors and government officials. 
 
-More recently, as Interior Minister, Halsdorf helped coordinate 
Luxembourg's assistance to the victims of hurricane Katrina in the 
states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.  In 2003, Halsdorf was 
tasked with the prestigious mission of presenting the Government's 
budget for the 2004 financial year in the Chamber of Deputies.  In 
2004, he first joined the government as Minister of Interior and 
Urbanization, in charge of implementing the government's policy to 
decentralize the areas of housing and economic activities. 
 
-Jean-Marie Halsdorf is married and has three children. 
 
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Luc Frieden: Minister of Finance and Budget 
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¶5. (SBU) Assumed to be PM Juncker's heir apparent, Frieden will be 
in charge of defending and promoting Luxembourg's financial status 
and viability in both the domestic and international communities. 
The financial crisis and the Madoff scandal have damaged the 
reputation of Luxembourg's financial center as international 
pressure increased on countries with banking secrecy regimes to 
participate in data/information sharing agreements.  The portfolios 
of Finance and Budget have given Frieden responsibility for the 
financial sector which represents more than 30 percent of 
Luxembourg's GDP. 
 
-Frieden was born in Esch-sur-Alzette and studied law at the 
 
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Universite de Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) graduating with a Master's 
degree in Business Law in 1986.  In 1987, he obtained his Master's 
degree in Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy from the University 
of Cambridge (UK).  He was a Fulbright Scholar who earned a Master 
of Law degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at 
Harvard University, the same year as First Lady Michelle Obama 
(1988).  He wrote his post-graduate thesis on "Media Newsgathering 
by Satellites", which was published in 1989 in the Stanford Journal 
of International Law. 
 
-From 1989 to 1998, Frieden was an attorney at the bar of 
Luxembourg.  During this period, he taught public law at the "Centre 
Universitaire du Luxembourg" and wrote a number of articles on 
banking law and constitutional law.  Between 1981 and 1994 he was a 
regular commentator on legal issues and foreign politics on the 
Luxembourg radio station RTL. 
 
-Elected to Parliament for the first time in 1994, and re-elected in 
1999, Frieden joined the government in February 1998, at the age of 
¶34.  He was appointed Minister of Justice, Budget and Relations with 
Parliament.  He coordinated the government's preparations for 
introducing the Euro in Luxembourg.  Frieden has served as Governor 
of the World Bank since February 1998 and acted as Governor of the 
Asian Development Bank between October 2003 and September 2004. 
 
-He is married (his spouse is Dutch) and has two children. 
 
 
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Frangois Biltgen: Minister of Justice, Minister for Communications, 
Higher Education, Media, Research and Public Administration 
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¶6. (SBU) Biltgen was rewarded with a super-ministry including 
justice, communications, higher education, media, research and 
public administration, mainly because of his close relationship with 
PM Juncker and because he ran a successful electoral campaign for 
the CSV. 
 
-Biltgen represents the more conservative group in the CSV, and he 
will be leading efforts to delay and dilute some of the announced 
reforms such as legalizing same-sex marriages, and relaxing the 
abortion law through the system.  This will make use of his former 
status as a legal advisor to the LCGB trade union which is close 
politically to the CSV. 
 
-In 1983, he accepted the post of Secretary to the parliamentary 
group of the Christian Social Party (CSV), succeeding current PM 
Jean-Claude Juncker.  In 1987, Biltgen was elected to the local 
council in Esch-sur-Alzette.  In 1997, he became Deputy Mayor in 
charge of finance and social affairs.  Biltgen was elected for the 
first time to the Chamber of Deputies in 1994 the same year he 
completed his legal studies from the University of Paris and began 
to practice law in Esch-sur-Alzette.  He joined the government as 
Minister of Labor and Employment, Minister of Relations with the 
Parliament, Minister of Religions and Minister in charge of 
Communication, after he was re-elected in 1999.  He reduced his 
political activities following successful treatment for cancer in 
¶2001.  His responsibilities were expanded in 2009 when he was given 
his current "super ministry." 
 
-Biltgen is married and has two children. 
 
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Claude Wiseler: Minister for Sustainable Development and 
Infrastructure, Transport, Environment, and Country Planning 
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¶7. (SBU) After a stellar career and good results during the two 
previous elections, Wiseler was selected to take over the 
super-Ministry for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure, 
including Transport, Environment, and Country Planning.  At the age 
of 49, he is a rising star within the CSV but does not yet match 
Frieden's superstar status. 
 
-A member of the CSV since 1983 and campaign manager of the CSV from 
1995 to 2000, Wiseler was first elected to Parliament in 1999.  His 
professional background as a teacher and senior advisor in the 
Ministry of Education and Ministry of Family reflects his interest 
in education.  From 2000 to 2004 he was deputy mayor of Luxembourg 
City, with responsibility for education and social affairs. 
 
-In 2004 Wiseler became Minister of the powerful Civil Service. 
Wiseler graduated from the University of Paris in Languages and 
obtained his Doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1989.  He was first a 
language teacher from 1983-1987, before becoming an advisor in the 
Ministry of Education until 1989.  Wiseler next became a senior 
government advisor, simultaneously under Minister Jacobs (Family) 
 
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and Boden (Middle Classes and Tourism) from 1989 to 1999.  Claude 
Wiseler participated in an International Visitor Leadership Program 
to the U.S. sponsored by Embassy Luxembourg in 2003.  The program 
focused on education and universities in the U.S. as the GOL was 
planning to establish the first university in Luxembourg. 
 
-Claude Wiseler is married and father of three children. 
 
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Jeannot Krecke: Minister of Economy and External Trade 
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¶8. (SBU) Krecke's electoral results were strong in 2009, and 
matched, if not exceeded, his performance in 2004.  He maintained 
control of the Ministry of Economy and External Trade but lost the 
sports portfolio.  It was also a surprise that the portfolio of 
Middle Classes (small and medium sized firms) a natural link to the 
Economy portfolio did not go to him as a result of the negotiation 
process. 
 
-Krecke started his political career as a local councilor in the 
town of Kopstal (1981-87) and after moving to Luxembourg City he 
occupied the same post, Councilor, in the capital's city council 
until 1989.  Krecke was elected into the Chamber of Deputies in 
¶1989.  A specialist in economic, tax, and financial issues, Krecke 
authored a manual on tax issues.  He also presented the GOL's budget 
report in 1996 and a report on fiscal fraud in 1997. 
 
-Krecke studied physical education in Brussels, before becoming a 
teacher in Luxembourg.  After playing international soccer, he 
became a keen sailor and was a member of the crew that won the 
transatlantic Constitution Race in 1987.  In 1989 and 1992, he 
organized polar expeditions in the Greenland Sea and near Spitzberg, 
Norway. 
 
-Krecke is married but has no children. 
 
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Nicolas Schmit: Labor and Immigration Minister 
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¶9. (SBU) Schmit was Luxembourg's Ambassador to the EU when Juncker 
asked him to join the government in 2004 to help the inexperienced 
FM Asselborn prepare for Luxembourg's EU Presidency in 2005.  He 
proved to be an excellent politician and was promoted from Delegate 
Minister to Minister but inherited the difficult Ministry of Labor 
portfolio (which addressed rising unemployment in times of financial 
crisis) and kept the sensitive Ministry of Immigration.  Schmit is 
known for taking on difficult missions in the past.  After his 
appointment, Schmit commented that the Labor portfolio traditionally 
belonged to the Socialists, but acknowledged that his mission was 
likely to be more complex than the one Juncker faced as Labor 
Minister in 1984 when a mere 2000 people were unemployed. 
 
-Schmit obtained a doctorate in Economic Sciences from the Institute 
of Political Studies (IEP) in Paris and also holds a Masters degree 
in International Relations.  After concluding his studies, Schmit 
was in charge of research concerning international economic 
relations at the University of Aix-Marseille in 1978-79. 
 
-In 1979, Schmit was recruited as an advisor on economic issues for 
the Prime Minister's Office.  He left in 1983 to join the Ministry 
of Foreign Affairs, where he became Chief of Staff for then FM 
Jacques Poos in 1984.  After a short time as Chief of Staff of the 
Socialist Party parliamentary group in 1989, Schmit was appointed in 
1990 as an advisor to Luxembourg's permanent representation to the 
EU in Brussels.  He worked closely with PM Juncker during the 
intergovernmental conference preparing the Maastricht Treaty.  In 
1991, he became a member of the advisory Council of State until 2004 
when he joined the government. Schmit returned to the MFA in 1992-98 
as the director of economic affairs and in charge of development 
aid.  In 1998, Schmit was appointed Ambassador to the EU permanent 
representation, where he also served as liaison for the GOL in the 
European Convention on the EU Constitution. 
 
-Schmit is married and has four children from a previous marriage. 
 
 
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Mady Delvaux-Stehres: Minister of Education and Lifelong Learning 
(vocational training) 
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¶10. (SBU) Following the elections, Delvaux-Stehres retained her 
portfolio as Minister of Education and Lifelong Learning (vocational 
training).  Delvaux was first elected to the Luxembourg city council 
in 1987.  She joined the government in 1989 as State Secretary for 
Health, Social Security, Youth and Sport.  During the 1989-1994 
 
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legislative period, she began reforming health insurance. 
Re-elected as front-runner in the Center region in 1994, Delvaux 
became Minister for Communications, Transport and Social Security 
and Communication, where she was responsible for initiating the 
liberalization of telephone services and reorganizing the railways 
in accordance with European directives. 
 
-As Minister of Social Security, Stehres was the Luxembourg 
signatory of the 1993 U.S.-Luxembourg Social Security agreement. Her 
husband, LSAP politician Michel Delvaux (with whom she had three 
children) passed away in 1983.  She has not remarried. 
 
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Marie-Josee-Jacobs: Minister of Family and Integration, Minister of 
Cooperation and Humanitarian Action 
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¶11. (SBU) Jacobs has remained electorally strong in her native 
northern region.  As a symbol demonstrating the promotion of women 
in Luxembourg, Jacobs remains indispensable in Juncker's new 
government.  With a background in nursing, Jacobs began her 
political career with the Christian Social People's party in 1967. 
From the start, Mrs. Jacobs was a member of the party's committee in 
the northern region, where she has been one of the most popular 
politicians over the last two decades. 
 
-Between 1980 and 1982, Jacobs was president of the LCGB trade 
union, close to the Christian Social Party, where she continues to 
be an active member.  Jacobs was first elected to Parliament in 1984 
and continuously re-elected since then.  Her debut as Minister in 
December 1992, saw her appointed Minister of Agriculture, 
Viticulture and Rural Development, as well as Deputy Minister for 
Cultural Affairs.  In this capacity, Jacobs was in charge of the 
organization of the European Year of Culture and a project for 
Luxembourg City, "European Capital of Culture" in 1995.  In 
Juncker's first government, Jacobs became Minister of Family, 
Minister for the Promotion of Women, and Minister for the 
Handicapped and Disabled. 
 
-Jacobs is not married. 
 
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Mars Di Bartolomeo: Minister of Health and Social Security 
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¶12. (SBU) Bartolomeo kept his portfolio as Minister of Health and 
Social Security.  After completing his secondary education in 
Esch/Alzette, Mars Di Bartolomeo was a journalist for the 
LSAP-affiliated paper Tageblatt from 1972 to 1984.  He was then 
appointed secretary of the LSAP parliamentary group as the successor 
of Robert Goebbels who left to become Minister of Economy.  In the 
local elections of 1987, Bartolomeo became local councilor in 
Dudelange, before being elected MP in 1989.  Di Bartolomeo was 
re-elected in 1994 and became mayor of the third largest town in 
Luxembourg, Dudelange, largely based on his personal popularity.  In 
the 2004 general elections, Di Bartolomeo obtained the highest 
number of Socialist votes - even ahead of his party leader Jean 
Asselborn. 
 
-Bartolomeo is married for the third time, and has five children. 
 
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Octavie Modert: Minister for Culture and Religion, Delegate Minister 
for Public Administration and "Administrative Simplification" 
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¶13. (SBU) Modert, a CSV veteran, originally from Grevenmacher 
(East), received a law degree from the Universite Robert Schuman in 
Strasbourg, France in 1990.  She went on to receive a Masters of Art 
in European Studies from the University of Reading (UK) in 1991. 
 
-After briefly working as a staff assistant in the parliamentary 
group of the CSV party, as well as in the Prime Minister's Office, 
Modert was named Secretary General of the Government Council in 
1998, at the age of 31.  She was the youngest woman to ever hold 
such a position.  In 1999, Modert was the first women to be promoted 
to the position of First Councilor to the Government.  In 2004 she 
became Secretary of State in charge of Relations with the 
Parliament; Secretary of State for Agriculture, Viticulture, and 
Rural Development; and Secretary of Culture, Higher Education, and 
Research. 
 
-She is married to a wine grower, and has no children. 
 
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Marco Schank: Housing Minister, Delegate Minister for Sustainable 
Development and Infrastructure 
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¶14. (SBU) Schank, is one of the three newcomers in the 
Juncker-Asselborn II cabinet.  As campaign manager of PM Juncker's 
CSV party, Schank managed a successful campaign and was rewarded 
with the portfolios of housing (Luxembourg has become the most 
expensive country in Europe to purchase a house) and delegate 
(deputy) Minister of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure. 
Previously he was a member of Luxembourg's largest environmental 
protection organization, the "Mouvement Ecologique." 
 
-Schank became mayor of Heiderscheid, in northern Luxembourg in 
¶1994.  He was elected to Parliament for the first time in 1999. In 
the 2004 general elections Schank obtained sufficient votes to join 
the government.  However, instead he was promoted to 
Secretary-General of Prime Minister Juncker's party (Christian 
Social People's party), in charge of preparing and running the 2009 
electoral campaign. 
 
-Schank is married and has three children.  He is also the author of 
several crime novels. 
 
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Romain Schneider: Minister for Agriculture, Viticulture and Rural 
Development 
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¶15. (SBU) Schneider is the Socialist newcomer in the 
Juncker-Asselborn II cabinet.  He was campaign manager and treasurer 
of the Socialist party and helped improve their results in the 
northern region, which traditionally does not turn out in large 
numbers for the Socialists. 
 
-As a reward for his election results and his commitment within the 
party, Schneider was given the portfolio of agriculture, which had 
been in CSV hands since WWII.  Agriculture will be a challenging 
portfolio over the next few years, with the upcoming reform of EU 
milk quotas by 2015 and recent farmers' demonstrations against the 
low price of milk. 
 
-He was the mayor of Wiltz, a town in northern Luxembourg known in 
part for its significant Muslim population (mostly former Yugoslav 
asylum seekers).  Schneider was elected to Parliament in 2004 for 
the first time.  He previously was campaign manager and treasurer of 
the LSAP.  In this capacity, he was in charge of running his party's 
electoral campaign for the 2009 elections. 
 
-In 2005, Schneider participated in a Voluntary Visitor Program 
sponsored by the U.S. Embassy for "Community Leaders."  During this 
visit, he met with former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an American 
of Luxembourg descent. 
 
-Schneider is married and has two children. 
 
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Frangoise Hetto-Gaasch: Minister for Middle Classes (small and 
medium sized firms) and Tourism Minister of Equality of Chances 
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¶16. (SBU) Frangoise Hetto-Gaasch is the greatest surprise in the new 
cabinet.  She was first elected to Parliament in 2004.  Until then, 
she was known in most Luxembourg homes for being a RTL Television 
personality from 1992 until 2004.  Before joining the government, 
Hetto-Gaasch was the mayor of Junglinster, a prosperous town near 
Luxembourg City. 
 
-Hetto-Gaasch is married and mother of two boys. 
 
¶17. (U) Embassy point of contact is Political and Economic Chief 
Michael Via, viama@state.gov, IVG: 8-677-2240. 
 
 
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