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Every section, ordered by publication date. 415 stories in the archive.
On 30 April 2026, the Frieden government launched the FND, a five-year €150 million vehicle backing innovative defence and dual-use companies, jointly funded by FSIL, the State and SNCI.
Severe wildfires in southern Georgia and Florida and persistent drought across 62% of the country pushed April 2026 burned-area numbers far above the long-run norm, with the Highway 82 and Pineland Road fires destroying dozens of homes.
The two largest Luxembourg-headquartered retail banks reported full-year 2025 results in late April 2026 within a week of each other, both above expectations.
Berlin has reauthorised internal Schengen controls on all nine of its land borders, including Luxembourg, until 15 September 2026 — citing migration and security pressures even as routine stationary checkpoints come down.
Talks on the European Commission's Digital Omnibus reform of the AI Act broke down on 28-29 April over how AI embedded in medical devices, machinery, toys and connected cars should be regulated.
NASA's four-astronaut Artemis II flight has completed its lunar fly-by and splashed down safely, the first crewed mission to leave low-Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Even as cloud providers ramp internal silicon, Nvidia keeps shipping. Its newest models — a multimodal Nemotron and an Ising family for quantum computing — are aimed at developers Nvidia does not want to lose to competitors.
AWS's new application gives pharma scientists direct access to specialised biology models trained on large biological datasets, with the explicit aim of accelerating early drug discovery and antibody therapy development.
On 29 April 2026, an unusually divided FOMC kept the benchmark rate steady, citing CPI back up to 3.3% in March. Markets price in no further moves this year, even as the median dot still shows one quarter-point cut in 2026.
On 28 April 2026, State Street confirmed Luxembourg as the initial delivery location for tokenised fund servicing through its Digital Asset Platform — a vote of confidence in the country's digital-fund legal framework.
Effective 28 April 2026, Luxembourg veteran Norbert Becker takes over as chair of the board of Edmond de Rothschild's Luxembourg subsidiary, in the cleanest signal yet that the bank is post-1MDB.
The five-year South San Francisco lab co-locates Lilly biology, chemistry and clinical scientists with Nvidia AI engineers, anchored on BioNeMo, the Vera Rubin GPU architecture and Lilly's pharma-industry-leading internal supercomputer.
Beijing's National Development and Reform Commission ordered Meta to unwind its takeover of Manus, an autonomous-AI startup with Chinese roots, calling the deal an attempt to "hollow out" China's tech base.
Z.ai's GLM-5.1, MiniMax M2.7, Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 and DeepSeek V4 all dropped within 12 days — a coordinated cadence that tells you more about the Chinese AI race than any single model.
Released on 24 April 2026, GPT-5.5 is positioned for agentic coding, knowledge work and scientific research. It costs more per token than GPT-5.4 but uses fewer tokens to reach higher-quality outputs.
From 13 to 23 April 2026, Pope Leo XIV travelled to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea — his first major international trip since being elected to succeed Pope Francis.
Luxembourg's most important religious festival — the Octave of Our Lady — runs across two consecutive weeks each spring, culminating in a procession of the 70-cm statue of the Virgin through the streets of the capital.
From end-June 2026, BGL BNP Paribas, BIL, Raiffeisen and Spuerkeess become the first Luxembourg banks to offer Wero, the European payments alternative to Visa and Mastercard. In parallel, the LuxConstellation ATM mutualisation pilot starts and BIL reports €210 million in 2025 net income, +24% YoY.
Prime Minister Luc Frieden spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in April 2026, in a relationship the Canadian PMO described as a growing bilateral partnership.
On 20 April 2026, a major earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan. Authorities urged residents to stay away from coastal areas of Iwate, Aomori and Hokkaido as tsunami waves of up to 3 metres were expected.
On 16 April 2026, Luxembourg's Ministry of Mobility and lux-Airport published a long-horizon airport plan that doubles passenger capacity, raises freight 50%, and pours €1 billion into infrastructure by 2032.
From the 2026/27 season, Hungarian conductor Martin Rajna takes over as Chief Conductor of the Luxembourg Philharmonic. The current 2025/26 season marks Kurtág's centenary and features Renaud Capuçon and Kit Armstrong as Artists in focus.
New STATEC projections push Luxembourg's population toward — and possibly past — one million by 2070, with migration rather than natural increase doing virtually all of the work.
Coinbase has been authorised under MiCA by the CSSF and is using Luxembourg as its regional crypto hub, joining more than 30 non-EU firms that established a presence ahead of the 1 July 2026 transition deadline.