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.
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 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 is the only sovereign grand duchy on Earth, a constitutional monarchy where the Grand Duke is head of state but governs almost nothing. The 2023 constitution clarified that he promulgates laws rather than approves them. In October 2025, Grand Duke Henri abdicated and his son became Grand Duke Guillaume V. Real power lies with the 60-member Chamber of Deputies and a government led by Prime Minister Luc Frieden.
Opposition LSAP deputies Claire Delcourt and Claude Haagen have tabled a bill in the Chamber of Deputies to give a permanent legal basis to Luxembourg's Universal Health Coverage scheme (CUSS), which lets people excluded from standard insurance be treated at the state's expense. The party says the pilot has reached its administrative limits after five years and that the roughly 2.3 million euros a year it would cost is already in budget projections.
A constitutional three-month interval expires on 3 June 2026, clearing the Chamber of Deputies to hold the decisive second vote on enshrining the freedom to access abortion in Article 15. Deputies approved the reform in a first reading on 3 March by 48 to 6 with 2 abstentions. If confirmed, Luxembourg would become the second country, after France, to write the freedom into its Constitution.
Luxembourg is rushing draft bill 8684 through parliament to transpose the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum before the bloc's rules take effect on 12 June 2026. Its centrepiece is a 3-to-7-day screening of undocumented arrivals, run from the former ADEM building on Rue Bender. The Luxembourg Refugee Council "strongly condemns" the text, citing detention of minors, shortened appeals and intrusive phone searches.
Luxembourg's Labour Commission has taken up a déi Lénk bill that would give couriers, drivers and other gig workers a strong presumption of employee status, protection from algorithmic management and union representation. The government is preparing its own, lighter transposition of an EU directive due by 2 December 2026, setting up a coalition-versus-opposition fight over how protective the law should be.
Luxembourg's parliament has approved a €265.1 million, four-year envelope to fund the country's space ambitions through 2029. Bill 8663, tabled by Economy Minister Lex Delles in December 2025, directs €149.3 million to ESA programmes and €115.8 million to the national LuxIMPULSE scheme. The package, about €66.6 million above the previous period, completed its passage on 5 May 2026.