Santer-Poos I Government

The Democratic Party lost one seat compared with the previous election, while the CSV gained one, even though its share of the vote fell slightly.

With the previous prime minister Pierre Werner retiring from political life, Jacques Santer was now charged with forming a government, and his CSV entered into coalition with the LSAP.

From 1984, the secretary of state for foreign trade and cooperation, Robert Goebbels, presented three bills which organised Luxembourgish development aid in a coherent manner, created the Fund for Development Cooperation (Fonds de la coopération au développement), regulated state subsidies to Luxembourgish non-governmental organisations, and introduced new fiscal measures to encourage philanthropy.

The government gave the SES a state guarantee, in order to allow the financing of the Astra system of satellites.

The law of 13 December 1988 introduced certificates of audiovisual investment, which gave their owners considerable tax allowances.

In the course of the same year, the government adapted existing legislation to a 1985 European Directive concerning the legal framework on Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities.