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The orders compress permitting, expand DOE authority over advanced reactors and underwrite SMR deployment — a single-day push to align the US nuclear regulatory state with AI-driven electricity demand.
Luxembourg's national railway is running its largest infrastructure programme in years. Closures during school holidays will affect the Athus, Longwy, Ettelbruck and Diekirch lines.
A March 2026 IDEA Foundation report argues the country's structural housing imbalance is now embedded. The government's response includes a new RENLA registration system and a multi-year affordable housing fund.
On 13 March 2026, Bascharage's Brasserie Nationale launched Battin Sans Alcool, an alcohol-free version of its Battin Gambrinus lager — Luxembourg's biggest brewery joining the no-and-low movement.
On 13 March 2026 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Minister Claude Meisch and Moselle Prefect Pascal Bolot inaugurated a new Franco-Luxembourg working group to coordinate housing, transport, demographics and resource preservation across the border.
On 12 March 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the surcharge applied to non-residents working in Luxembourg violates EU law — a decision with consequences for around 228,000 cross-border workers.
On 4 March 2026, Prime Minister Luc Frieden officially launched AI4LUX, a national campaign positioning AI as a driver for citizens, competitiveness and Luxembourg's sovereignty.
Temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees has been extended to 4 March 2026, with 3,671 people from Ukraine welcomed by Luxembourg as of mid-2025 and clear progress in school enrolment and labour-market integration.
Satellite imagery shows southern Lebanese towns being completely levelled in what observers describe as the Gaza playbook applied to Lebanon. Over a million people have been displaced.
Investigators from the Grand Duchy raided the Luxembourg subsidiary of the Swiss private bank EFG on 24 February 2026, focusing on suspected client-vigilance and AML control failures.
Meta has committed to deploy AMD's Instinct MI450 GPUs and 6th-gen EPYC "Venice" CPUs at six gigawatts of capacity over five years, days after expanding its Nvidia order. AMD is no longer the second choice.
Alpine skier Matthieu Osch was the country's flagbearer at the 2026 Winter Olympics, finishing 28th in the slalom. Twenty-year-old Gwyneth ten Raa achieved her best result with 30th place in the giant slalom.
The 20 February 2026 ruling struck down Trump's 2025 IEEPA-based tariffs on China and others, forcing the administration to rebuild its trade-war architecture under Section 122, 232 and 301 of US trade law.
The Chamber of Deputies has greenlit a €301 million package to build, launch and operate a second sovereign government and defence communications satellite, deepening the LuxGovSat joint venture with SES.
Speaking at Harvard's Center for European Studies, Luxembourg's Prime Minister called for a more autonomous Europe — on defence, energy and capital markets — without burning bridges with Washington.
On 9 February 2026, Elon Musk announced a 5-to-7-year delay in SpaceX's Mars ambitions. The previously planned uncrewed 2026 Mars landing is cancelled in favour of lunar missions and Starship reliability work.
On 8 February 2026, the LDP under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won at least 316 seats — Japan's largest single-party haul since 1945. Takaichi succeeds Shigeru Ishiba, who resigned in September 2025 after consecutive electoral losses.
After the 2025 1-ppt CIT reduction, the Frieden government plans a further 1-ppt cut from 2027. The 3 February 2026 carried-interest law clarifies and broadens the AIF carry definition.
ADEM reported a stable 6.3% unemployment rate in early 2026 with 21,255 resident jobseekers. From 1 January 2026, all unemployment benefit applications must be filed online; March vacancies were up 18.8% year-on-year.
Apple's fiscal Q1 2026 revenue topped consensus by close to $2 billion, driven by services rather than iPhone — and the result tightens the company's hold on the world's largest market cap as Nvidia keeps closing the gap.
20-year-old Eva Marija Kavaš Puc won the Luxembourg Song Contest at Rockhal on 24 January 2026 with 'Mother Nature' — the country's first ever Eurovision entry performed entirely in English.
On 19 January 2026, CFL launched its first six-unit configuration of the 2450-series Coradia Stream High Capacity train between Luxembourg City and Athus — the largest single cross-border commuter capacity in CFL history.
At CES, Jensen Huang raised his prior $500 billion estimate of orders and revenue from the Blackwell and Rubin platforms through end-2026. BofA projects $400B+ of free cash flow across CY26-CY27 — roughly Apple and Microsoft combined.
Ethiopian Airlines began construction in January on a Zaha Hadid-designed mega-hub at Bishoftu, with phase one targeting 60 million passengers a year by 2030 and ultimate capacity of 110 million.