News, reporting, and analysis from across the Grand Duchy — Chamber sessions, ministerial briefings, municipal decisions, and the daily life of Luxembourg City and the country's twelve cantons.
Gérard Lopez, Eric Lux and two former Fola Esch officials are due to stand trial in Luxembourg in mid-December over allegations that documents used to justify part of a 2014 financial transaction contained false information.
Luxembourg recorded 3,461 incidents on buses, trains and trams in 2025, a 5.8% increase. Unions want stronger protection for staff, while the government is advancing legislation on surveillance, order and penalties.
Luxair has placed firm orders for two Boeing 737-10s and three Embraer E190-E2s. The decisions lift its firm Boeing backlog to 12 aircraft and its Embraer E2 commitments to nine.
Luxembourg's family-benefit bill would add €45 a month per child from January 2027 and a further €15 for those aged 12 and over. Its full annual cost is projected to exceed €200 million.
Luxembourg’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate reached 6.4% in June. ADEM counted 19,619 available resident jobseekers, 9.7% more than a year earlier, even as the number of declared vacancies increased.
Amnesty International Luxembourg, Innocence en Danger and La Voix des Survivant·e·s are pressing for an urgent overhaul of child protection. Their demonstration comes as three reform bills remain under consideration.
Administrative cases at first instance took an estimated 720 days in Luxembourg in 2024, up from 479 a year earlier. The European Commission says delays rose throughout the court system even as its backlog remained among the EU’s lowest.
Luxembourg has unveiled seven measures to restart residential construction, including €300 million for state purchases, higher buyer support and new tax incentives. Most elements still require legislation and will be monitored for price effects.
Luxembourg’s parliament has extended Klimabonus Wunnen for eligible energy renovations through 2035. The reform changes how technical installations are subsidised and prepares upfront financing for heat pumps from 2027.
Austria's defence minister, Klaudia Tanner, announced in Luxembourg on Monday that Vienna intends to buy secure communications capacity on GovSat-2, the Grand Duchy's €301 million military satellite. It is the first foreign partner for the project, and the two ministers signed a broader letter of intent on defence cooperation.
A person who died without heirs left roughly €400 million to the Luxembourg state, Finance Minister Gilles Roth confirmed while presenting the half-year public accounts. The windfall almost exactly covers the €432.5 million tripartite relief package voted on 9 July — and flatters a budget that would otherwise show a far deeper deficit.
Luxembourg's government has presented a single national building regulation to replace the roughly 100 separate codes its communes each maintain. The rulebook, due in force on 1 January 2028, standardises construction requirements and aims to shorten planning procedures by months, part of a wider push to build more housing faster.
Jens Kreisel, rector of the University of Luxembourg since 2023, will not seek a second mandate and will leave office at the end of 2027. His decision comes as the Grand Duchy's only public university is shaken by harassment allegations, a ministerial intervention and three separate audits into its governance.
As Luxembourg's environment ministry prepares to rule on the permit for Google's long-delayed data centre in Bissen, the country's largest green group is threatening to challenge any approval in the administrative courts over its energy, water and transparency concerns.
Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies on 9 July approved subsidies on motor fuel, gas, electricity and heating oil for households and businesses, part of a €432.5 million tripartite package prompted by an oil-price shock from the Strait of Hormuz. Opponents backed the aid but criticised its cost and its late start.
Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies voted 42 to 18 on Wednesday to widen police powers to remove people from public places, allowing 48-hour bans within a one-kilometre radius and 30-day municipal bans for repeat cases. The reinforced Platzverweis passed over objections from the human rights commission, the Council of State and the courts.
Luxembourg's public prosecutor has carried out a fresh round of searches at the Immigration Directorate and the Ministry of Research and Higher Education in a sprawling case in which more than 200 third-country nationals allegedly obtained residence rights and social benefits with forged documents. Twenty-five people have been charged since the inquiry opened in 2023.
The International Monetary Fund has warned that, without a change of course, Luxembourg's run of budget deficits will push public debt up against the 30%-of-GDP line the government has treated as a red line for years, and it is urging spending discipline, a broader tax base and a legislated debt anchor.
Luxembourg's biggest public holiday will unfold under a red heat alert, with forecasters warning of tropical nights and a felt temperature approaching 39C - a local reckoning with Europe's accelerating warming.
An arrest in Turin on a Luxembourg warrant is the latest turn in the Caritas fraud, a €61.2 million embezzlement that has grown into a money-laundering case spanning nine countries.