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.
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.
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 startup ecosystem counts more than 810 companies and raised €407 million in 2025. This guide maps the practical path for founders: setting up a SARL-S, getting the business permit, stacking equity-free grants such as Fit 4 Start (up to €150,000), raising from business angels and venture capital, and tapping the Luxembourg Future Fund, the European Investment Fund and EU money from the EIC.
Fondation IDEA, the think-tank created by Luxembourg's Chamber of Commerce, argues the housing shortage should no longer be called a "crisis." In Décryptage No. 54, economist Michel-Edouard Ruben calls it a "perma-crisis" — an "established disorder" of scarce supply and high prices. IDEA has pressed four structural fixes as completions lag the government's 6,000-homes-a-year target.
On 19 May the European Parliament approved a new safeguard regime that cuts tariff-free steel imports by almost half and doubles the duty on the rest. ArcelorMittal, headquartered in Luxembourg, says the measure is already resetting the industry's outlook.
STATEC's 2026 economic outlook is a practical guide to how Luxembourg households and companies should read inflation, wage indexation and labour-market pressure.
Luxembourg may face a family-business succession wave over the next decade. Eurostat enterprise data and House of Entrepreneurship figures point to about 10,700 family-business transfers, while comparable European research suggests many still lack a clear next-generation successor.
STATEC has presented a scenario on how a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could affect Luxembourg, putting energy prices, inflation and economic planning back into focus.
The International Monetary Fund's 2026 Article IV mission, concluded on 7 May, projects Luxembourg's real GDP to grow 1.2% in 2026 and 1.7% in 2027, with the general government deficit remaining around 2% of GDP. Staff call for moderate fiscal tightening, broader tax bases and further pension measures, while welcoming the 2026 pension reform.
Luxembourg's GDP per capita topped €146,000 in 2025 — the highest on Earth. Here is how a 2,586 km² nation of 681,973 people built its wealth, from 19th-century steel to 21st-century investment funds.