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.
Luxembourg's flagship registration-duty credit for primary-residence buyers remains in force in 2026, after the broader package of housing-crisis tax reliefs ended in mid-2025.
After more than three decades in its iconic eight-dome Kirchberg headquarters, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg moves in 2026 to the 76,400 m² Skypark complex at Findel, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group.
The Luxembourg subsidiary of Edmond de Rothschild paid €25 million to settle criminal charges connected to Malaysia's 1MDB sovereign-wealth-fund scandal — a precedent the financial centre will not be able to forget.
When the consumer price index moves 2.5%, every salary in the Grand Duchy adjusts by 2.5% by law. Statec's projections put the next trigger in the second quarter — the second tranche of the current cycle.
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.
The Paiement Immédiat Direct, launched in 2023 and expanded in 2024, is reaching critical mass in 2026 — replacing the reimbursement-claim step for a growing share of Luxembourg medical visits.
QS places the University of Luxembourg at #381 globally for 2026, while Times Higher Education ranks it 251–300. Its first appearance in THE's Interdisciplinary Science Ranking puts it 26th in Europe.
Luxembourg posted a 5% increase in international visitors in 2025, with 2.12 million overnight stays and an unusually high spend per visitor that confirms the country's pivot toward higher-value tourism.
Since March 2025, Luxembourg's Tram Line 1 runs the full 16 km from Findel airport through the city. Ridership has more than quintupled in five years, yet around 70% of work commutes are still by car.
Luxembourg's national railway is running its largest infrastructure programme in years. Closures during school holidays will affect the Athus, Longwy, Ettelbruck and Diekirch lines.
A March 2026 IDEA Foundation report argues the country's structural housing imbalance is now embedded. The government's response includes a new RENLA registration system and a multi-year affordable housing fund.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The 3.5% reduced registration duty, 6% accelerated depreciation and capital-gains relief introduced during the housing crisis expired on 30 June 2025. The next phase is administrative reform.