The view from Luxembourg on the European Union — Commission policy, Court of Justice rulings, Council bargaining, and how Brussels and Strasbourg shape life inside the Grand Duchy.
Spain sent troops and additional police to Ceuta after officials estimated that between 50,000 and 60,000 people entered from Morocco. Dozens died during the crossing, while Brussels offered operational and financial support.
The EU has finally adopted its first major revision of air-passenger rights since 2004. From 2027, travellers flying from Luxembourg will gain clearer claims procedures, fare transparency and new protections without losing the three-hour compensation threshold.
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday that Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko will step down as part of a sweeping renewal of Ukraine’s government and law-enforcement leadership, less than a year after she took office. She is widely tipped to become Kyiv’s next ambassador to the United States.
At least 12 people have been killed and more than 20 are missing after a wildfire swept through hills near Los Gallardos in Spain's Almería province. Most of the dead were foreign holidaymakers and residents, including British and Belgian nationals, many overtaken as they fled along a dry riverbed while flames driven by extreme heat and wind bore down on them.
ACI Europe, Airlines for Europe and IATA have written to Ursula von der Leyen demanding "immediate intervention" on the EU's Entry/Exit System, warning of five-hour passport queues and planes leaving half-empty as 40 million extra passengers arrive for the summer peak. The Commission insists the impact is "limited" at most airports but has called an urgent meeting. At Luxembourg's Findel airport, travellers are advised to reach passport control 90 minutes before departure.
Denmark's Rebild Festival, the largest Fourth of July celebration outside the United States, will go ahead on America's 250th anniversary without representatives of the US state. Aalborg Municipality threatened to withdraw its funding unless embassy and military officials were dropped, and for the second year running organisers have not invited Donald Trump's traditional presidential greeting — fallout from Washington's campaign to take control of Greenland.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologised in the House of Commons for Britain's role in an estimated 185,000 forced adoptions in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976, hours from a parallel Dutch cabinet apology in The Hague covering some 15,000 children relinquished between 1956 and 1984. Both governments promised follow-up measures; neither, so far, has put compensation on the table.
EU gas storage sat at roughly 40 percent at the start of June, far below the seasonal norm and, the Financial Times reports, the lowest in 15 years for this stage of the refill season. With most Russian pipeline gas gone and Qatari LNG lost indefinitely, Brussels is quietly loosening its filling targets — and Luxembourg, which stores no gas of its own, is fully exposed to the result.
For two years Western economic pressure on Russia looked blunt. With Moscow's summer offensive stalled and its sovereign-wealth cushion nearly gone, the calculus is shifting — and Europe's frozen-asset leverage, a slice of it held in Luxembourg, sits at the centre of it.
Germany's pension commission has recommended linking the retirement age to life expectancy from 2031 and adding a funded investment pillar, in the most far-reaching overhaul of the country's state pension in a generation. Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to implement it in full, even as unions and the opposition revolt.
Eighteen months after a rented SUV tore through a Christmas market in the heart of Magdeburg, a German court has sentenced the Saudi-born psychiatrist who drove it to life imprisonment, with a finding reserved for the gravest crimes and an order for preventive detention.
Volkswagen is said to be weighing the deepest cut in its 89-year history — up to one in six jobs worldwide — as falling profits, a collapsing China business and US tariffs squeeze Europe's largest carmaker.
An exceptionally early and intense heatwave has gripped Europe around the summer solstice, smashing June records and overwhelming health and emergency services. Spain's mortality monitor has tied more than 200 deaths to the heat in four days, while in France at least 40 people have drowned seeking relief and two young children died in a parked car.
France has confirmed its first-ever Ebola case: a doctor back from the Democratic Republic of Congo, isolated in Paris with a low viral load. Officials say the public risk is low, even as the Bundibugyo outbreak in Ituri becomes the fastest-growing on record.
The EU's General Court has struck down the European Commission's 2023 decision to keep private and business aircraft out of the bloc's green-investment taxonomy, ruling that Brussels judged a manufacturing activity by the wrong yardstick. The decision, handed down in Luxembourg, reopens the contested boundary of 'sustainable' finance.
Having won US antitrust clearance for its $111bn purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Skydance now faces the harder test in Brussels, where the European Commission is weighing both competition concerns and $24bn of Gulf sovereign-wealth financing under two separate July deadlines.
For the first time since the Taliban took Kabul in 2021, the EU hosted its officials in Brussels — a meeting the Commission requested to discuss returning rejected Afghan asylum seekers, and which rights groups condemned as deportations to a country grown only more dangerous.
The German state has agreed to buy 40% of KNDS through its KfW development bank, matching France and removing the final barrier to an initial public offering of one of Europe's most important arms manufacturers.
Keir Starmer is under intense pressure to set a timetable for leaving Downing Street after his rival Andy Burnham won a parliamentary seat and Labour MPs broke cover to call for change. The prime minister insists he will fight any contest.
Two governments have decided childhood and social media no longer mix. Luxembourg, bound by EU rules it helped write, is deliberately not following them with a ban of its own.