Esch2022, the cross-border European Capital of Culture spanning Luxembourg and France, drew 512,000 visitors to 1,351 events on a 54.8 million euro budget. Four years on, the legacy is mixed-to-positive: strong turnout and a concrete Interreg follow-on, but only a minority of Minett residents felt the French-Luxembourg link itself grew stronger.
France and Luxembourg again failed to lift the 34-day cap on tax-free teleworking for French cross-border workers at December's intergovernmental commission. France wants a 40% threshold plus revenue-sharing; Luxembourg offers only 25% and refuses retrocession. With talks pushed to late 2026, more than 120,000 frontaliers stay stuck on a rule that competitors abandoned years ago.
As France opens the decennial review that could keep the first Cattenom reactor running past its 40-year design life in 2026, Luxembourg — about 10 km downstream on the Moselle — is again pressing to be consulted at every stage of a plant it wants shut. The ASNR has cleared the country's 1,300 MWe fleet to run another decade, subject to upgrades; EDF expects to spend around EUR 6 billion.
An updated bilateral pensions protocol removes decades-old friction for 110,000 French residents working in Luxembourg, set to take effect 1 January 2026.
On 6 January 2026, 35 countries signed the Paris Declaration committing to robust security guarantees for Ukraine, including UK and French deployments and US-led ceasefire monitoring.
On 13 March 2026 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Minister Claude Meisch and Moselle Prefect Pascal Bolot inaugurated a new Franco-Luxembourg working group to coordinate housing, transport, demographics and resource preservation across the border.