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On 4–5 May 2026, Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa met Armenian leadership in Yerevan for the first formal EU-Armenia summit. Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended in the margins to discuss a joint EU-Ukraine drone-production deal.
Luxembourg's school system uses Luxembourgish, German and French from pre-school onwards. Since 2021/22, students in 4e (lower secondary) take a compulsory course in Luxembourgish language, society and culture.
ESL1 in Kirchberg and ESL2 in Mamer — Luxembourg's two European Schools — operate under a vertical split first set in 2003. Parents continue to push for a horizontal reorganisation that the Board of Governors has consistently rejected.
Luxembourg's national innovation agency closed 2025 with its highest-ever support count and launched a redesigned, four-pillar service model. Minister Lex Delles and CEO Mario Grotz also confirmed the Luxembourg AI Factory, part of the EU's 19-strong AI Factory network, has assisted around 150 organisations since launch.
EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra spent two days in Luxembourg in mid-April, meeting Prime Minister Frieden, Foreign Minister Bettel and Environment Minister Wilmes. Discussions ranged from ETS2 implementation to international climate finance — and ended with the Commissioner accepting an invitation to open Luxembourg's first International Climate Finance Days in June.
Luxembourg's coalition has adopted a Climate Social Plan to shield vulnerable households and micro-enterprises from rising carbon costs. Within weeks, the country's largest unions and an environmental NGO welcomed the framework but warned it lacks firm budgets, clear target groups, and a binding timeline.
Washington will withdraw roughly 14% of its troop presence in Germany following Chancellor Friedrich Merz's criticism of US Iran-war strategy, in a move that has rattled NATO allies.
ASEAN+3 finance officials issued a joint readiness statement on 4 May, with currency-swap lines primed and intervention frameworks rehearsed as Hormuz-driven oil prices and US-China summit uncertainty rattle Asian markets.
The Luxembourg telecommunications operator Eltrona announced on 4 May 2026 that board member Gerald Demortier will take over as interim CEO from 1 June, ahead of a permanent appointment.
On 3 June 2026, the Red Lions face Italy in a high-profile international friendly at the Stade de Luxembourg — the most visible early test of head coach Jeff Strasser's project.
Three days after losing the Pentagon contract, Anthropic announced an enterprise AI services joint venture backed by some of the deepest pockets in private capital and Wall Street.
Underground guides circulating among Russian troops detail medical, legal and unofficial routes to exit service, in a war that is now visibly straining the personnel system that sustains it.
A barrage of missiles and drones hit the Fujairah Petroleum Industries Zone and a UAE-flagged tanker on 4 May, the first major attack on Emirati territory since the 8 April US-Iran truce.
Almost no commercial shipping is using the strait two months into the war. Reopening it has become the single largest economic question of 2026.
CENTCOM says US forces destroyed at least six Iranian small boats threatening shipping; the White House signalled it would reject Iran's latest peace proposal because Tehran had "not paid a big enough price".
The largest US grid operator forecasts a 6 GW reliability shortfall by 2027 as AI data-centre load surges. Operators are racing to build behind-the-meter generation while the politics catch up.
Abu Dhabi's signalled withdrawal from OPEC and rare public rebuke of fellow Arab states have exposed a rift with Riyadh that the cartel will struggle to paper over.
Reported on 4 May 2026, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg's 2025 results show net interest income falling from €582.5M to €509M — a tougher rate environment biting before the bank's mid-2026 relocation to Skypark.
ECOFIN is set to agree new rules on cross-border VAT fraud at its 4 May meeting in Brussels, the latest step in a decade-long effort to close the EU's largest tax-revenue leak.
The fifth European Political Community summit drew nearly fifty heads of state to Yerevan on 4 May, with Volodymyr Zelenskyy's attendance putting Armenia on a collision course with the Kremlin.
On Whit Tuesday, 26 May 2026, the medieval town of Echternach hosts the Hopping Procession of Saint Willibrord, the only annual dancing pilgrimage on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
A rare twin birth in eastern DRC's Virunga National Park is a small piece of unequivocally good conservation news for a species whose population has crept back from the brink across the past three decades.
Riyadh's foreign ministry urged restraint from both Washington and Tehran on 4 May, marking a more dovish stance than its Gulf neighbours and underscoring the kingdom's reluctance to be drawn into a wider war.
Mogadishu is moving toward its first offshore drilling operations after decades of delays, with seismic data pointing to a basin that could be one of Africa's most consequential new hydrocarbon discoveries.