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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.
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.
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.
The 2026 Henley Passport Index puts Luxembourg in joint third place globally — tied with Denmark, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland — with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 186 destinations.
Argentina's new monetary framework, launched on 2 January 2026, expands the peso's FX trading band by the inflation rate from two months earlier. Annual inflation is down to 31.8% — the lowest in over seven years.
The 2026 budget pushes Luxembourg's CO₂ price one step higher in a planned escalation that began at €20/tonne. The depreciation rate on sustainable energy renovations of rental housing rises from 6% to 10%.
From 2026, French, Belgian and German residents working in Luxembourg are entitled to Luxembourg unemployment benefits only after six uninterrupted months of work in the Grand Duchy.
Luxembourg's official 2026 social minimum wage is currently EUR 2,703.74 gross monthly for an unqualified adult and EUR 3,244.48 for a qualified adult, at index 968.04. A further tranche is forecast for June 2026 but is not yet confirmed as effective.
On 31 December 2025, Luxembourg's decade-long Article 89 window — which allowed descendants of any Luxembourger alive on 1 January 1900 to recover citizenship — slammed shut. Early data shows a final-year surge.