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Every section, ordered by publication date. 36 stories in the archive.
Luxembourg's June 2026 tripartite deal commits about €450 million to cushion an energy-price shock, but Mouvement Écologique warns that broad fossil-fuel subsidies undercut the country's climate goals, even as the government and social partners defend the package.
The BCL has defended the ECB's 25-basis-point rate hike of 11 June 2026 as logical and the best available choice. The move, driven by a Middle East energy shock, raises borrowing costs for Luxembourg households and tests a fragile housing recovery and the country's vast fund industry.
Luxembourg is expanding its Housing First programme, which gives long-term homeless people a permanent home before treating addiction or mental illness. Officials say the approach restores autonomy; Finland's results suggest it works.
After three days of talks at Senningen, the government, unions and employers agreed a €432.5 million package of energy relief, tax credits and a higher minimum wage. Finance Minister Gilles Roth called the cost reasonable and said the country had the margins to pay for it.
An orientation to the recurring themes that drive Luxembourg's news: the budget cycle, the tripartite, housing, the EU institutions, and the Greater Region. status.lu's standing guide to what matters.
Renting in Luxembourg comes with real legal protections, including a rent ceiling tied to the property's value and a cap on security deposits. Here is what every tenant should know.
Housing is Luxembourg's defining domestic challenge: prices have far outpaced incomes, driven by population growth, scarce buildable land, and limited supply. We lay out the forces at work.
Luxembourg runs on Luxembourgish, French, and German — plus English at work. We explain how the three official languages divide up administration, justice, and the classroom.
Luxembourg's automatic wage indexation raises salaries and pensions by 2.5% whenever average prices climb past a threshold. We explain how the mechanism works and why it is so contested.
Luxembourg is the world's second-largest investment-fund domicile after the United States. We explain how EU passporting, the UCITS framework, and the CSSF regulator made it possible.
Communal elections fill the councils that run Luxembourg's 100 communes. We explain the two voting systems, who is eligible, and why non-nationals are encouraged to register.
Luxembourg is governed by coalitions because its proportional system makes single-party majorities almost impossible. We explain how the Chamber, the parties, and the formateur turn an election result into a government.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel was heckled at the NEXUS Luxembourg tech summit by protesters objecting to the presence of Israeli start-ups, according to RTL. The incident unfolded against the backdrop of Luxembourg's September 2025 recognition of a Palestinian state and a wider EU dispute over relations with Israel.
Apple has confirmed it will build a native Luxembourgish keyboard into iOS 27, ending years in which iPhone users typing Lëtzebuergesch relied on third-party apps and constant manual correction. The move follows a long campaign for digital support of the language, anchored by the 2018 promotion law and the Zenter fir d'Lëtzebuerger Sprooch.
Estonian ride-hailing group Bolt, Chinese developer Pony.ai and carmaker Stellantis have launched a one-year robotaxi trial that begins in Bissen with five vehicles and is set to scale to 30 and reach Luxembourg City. The pilot dovetails with the government's stated ambition to make the country the first in Europe with a full legal framework for self-driving cars.
European and national drug monitoring confirm cannabis as the most widely used illicit substance in Luxembourg, with about 14.6% of adults reporting use in the past year. The figures arrive as the country reviews its July 2023 law permitting limited home cultivation and private consumption.
Health Minister Martine Deprez's Bill 8760 would let medical associations open standalone ambulatory-care structures for dialysis, oncology and minor surgery. The AMMD welcomes more out-of-hospital practice but objects to the governance, while hospital doctors warn of cherry-picking and a weakened public sector.
After years of deadlock, the European Union's Pact on Migration and Asylum enters into application on 12 June 2026, introducing mandatory screening, an expanded Eurodac database, fast-track border procedures and a permanent 'solidarity mechanism'. For Luxembourg, a small state with one of the EU's highest asylum rates per capita, the reform reshapes both its obligations and its long-standing push for fairer burden-sharing.
The European Central Bank raised its deposit rate to 2.25% on 11 June 2026, citing inflation pressures from the war in the Middle East. The decision filters into Luxembourg through variable-rate mortgages, the automatic wage index and the country's vast fund industry.
Three French operators have signed a memorandum of understanding worth about 20.4 billion euros to break up and absorb SFR, owned by Patrick Drahi's heavily indebted, Luxembourg-domiciled Altice group.
Luxembourg is one of the EU's six founding members and hosts the Court of Justice, the Parliament's secretariat and much of the Commission's administration. We explain how a country of 670,000 wields influence well beyond its weight.
France's Cigéo project would entomb the country's most dangerous nuclear waste 500 metres beneath the Meuse, and a 2026 public inquiry now looms. For Luxembourg, long opposed to nuclear power on its doorstep, the plan reopens old questions about water, safety and a say in decisions made across the border.
The European Commission has ordered Meta to reinstate free access to WhatsApp for rival general-purpose AI assistants within five working days, ruling that excluding them risks serious and irreparable harm to a nascent market. Meta says it will appeal.
Cross-border workers — frontaliers — make up close to half of Luxembourg's employees. We explain where they come from, why the country depends on them, and the strains the arrangement creates.