There can hardly be any talk of a silly season in 2025: Global politics and crises continue to dominate events during the holiday months. Although parliament and the government are still in recess, the upcoming social negotiations are bringing the return to everyday life closer at an early stage.
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So, what about those silly that used to dominate summer? There is little sign of them in 2025, as global politics continues to spin at such a pace even in the height of summer that it can make you dizzy, although the silly notion of a "day without news" has disappeared at the latest since the re-election of Donald Trump anyway.
In any case, it hasn't really been "quiet" for quite a while now, even if the odd killer catfish, problem bear or spectacled caiman pops up from time to time with the start of the parliamentary holidays here and in our neighbouring countries.
In Luxembourg, the theft of a chameleon named Freddy from the butterfly garden in Grevenmacher even made the summer headlines a few years ago, although the radio news in this country almost always starts with local reports about drink-driving or kitchen fires, even outside of summer, which is probably not the case abroad.
The fact that Luxembourg ticks differently is made clear not least by the fact that not only does the Chamber of Deputies take a break for around three months from mid-July, but that the government is also more or less in lockdown, no matter how tense the world situation is at the time.
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