Luxembourg wants a larger share of its rising defence expenditure to remain in the domestic economy. Its plan combines stricter rules for manufacturers with a Defence Campus at the former Liberty Steel site in Dudelange.
Eighty-six years to the day after the Wehrmacht entered Luxembourg, Dudelange resident Aloyse Schartz, 93, who was six in 1940, recalls the morning his father came home early from the steelworks night shift to announce the German invasion: 'D'Preise sinn do.'
On 10 May 2026 the city of Dudelange and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) presented the city's first Observatoire social, mapping income, poverty risk and housing pressure quartier by quartier. The data confirm pronounced inequalities between districts of Luxembourg's fourth-largest commune.