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Every section, ordered by publication date. 293 stories in the archive.
The European Parliament's economic affairs committee votes on the digital euro on 23 June 2026, advancing a project the EU casts as a way to cut its reliance on Visa, Mastercard and PayPal — with consequences Luxembourg's financial centre will feel directly.
Iran has told the IAEA it will not allow inspectors back into the three nuclear facilities bombed a year ago, deepening a verification standoff just as Tehran and Washington advance a 60-day roadmap toward a final agreement — leaving the watchdog unable to account for some 440 kg of high-enriched uranium.
Luxembourg's 'Let's Make It Happen' nation-branding initiative marks its tenth anniversary in 2026 with a refreshed strategy and a new capital showcase, as the country works to project itself beyond finance.
US and Iranian delegations meeting at the Bürgenstock resort above Lake Lucerne agreed what mediators Qatar and Pakistan called a roadmap toward a final deal within 60 days, including a Strait of Hormuz communication line, a Lebanon de-confliction cell and the return of IAEA inspectors. The diplomacy unfolded as President Trump publicly threatened fresh strikes, leaving the core nuclear and sanctions questions unresolved and oil markets watching the Gulf.
China placed 10 US firms on its export-control list and barred 46 from government procurement on 22 June 2026, retaliating for the Pentagon's expanded list of 'Chinese military companies' and raising the temperature of a trade war that reaches export-dependent economies like Luxembourg's.
An explosion at the Barzan gas facility in Qatar's Ras Laffan complex killed 13 workers and injured 66 during a plant restart. The energy minister called it an accident, ruled out sabotage and said LNG exports were not affected — a relief to a European market already strained by Gulf tensions.
Luxembourg's bill 8762 transposes the EU right-to-repair directive, bringing longer guarantees, repair-price transparency and a ban on obstructing repairs — though the law will likely arrive after the 31 July 2026 deadline.
Washington has issued a 60-day general licence authorising the sale of Iranian crude, the first such opening since 2018. The move, tied to an interim deal over the Strait of Hormuz, pushed Brent lower and could ease Europe's energy-driven inflation.
UniCredit's all-share bid for Commerzbank has reached its decisive phase, claiming about 42% of the German bank as Berlin, its board and regulators resist — a test of the eurozone's stalled banking union that reaches Luxembourg's financial hub.
A vintage Antonov An-2 biplane came down hard and ground-looped while landing at Luxembourg's only international airport on Sunday 21 June, damaging the runway and forcing it to close. All 12 people aboard escaped unhurt, but the shutdown of Findel's single runway diverted, delayed or cancelled dozens of flights before crews reopened it the same evening.
Luxembourg's social minimum wage rose 2.5% on 1 June 2026 to €2,771.33 gross a month for unskilled work and €3,325.59 for qualified work. A guide to the hourly rates, the under-18 tiers, gross-to-net deductions and how indexation moves the figure.
A plain-language guide to Luxembourg's family allowance in 2026: the current monthly amounts and age supplements, who qualifies (including cross-border workers), how to apply to the CAE, and the birth and back-to-school allowances.
A practical guide for newcomers and existing tenants to renting in Luxembourg after the 2024 reform: deposit caps and staged refunds, the 50/50 agency-fee split, rent-increase limits, how to end a lease, and the state rent subsidy and deposit guarantee.
Patrizia van der Weken finished third in the 100m at the Doha Diamond League on 19 June 2026, her second podium on the elite circuit in under a fortnight, racing through what her coach called recent physical discomfort.
An investigation drawing on EU foreign service and UN figures estimates Israeli military operations have destroyed at least €150 million of EU-funded buildings and infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank since October 2023, with no compensation paid.
Alan Greenspan, who led the US Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006 and became the defining central banker of the globalisation era, has died aged 100. His low-rate, deregulatory tenure built much of the modern financial system, but his reputation was shadowed by the 2008 crisis that followed his exit.
Germany has secured a carve-out letting Deutsche Börse avoid mandatory ESMA supervision, exposing deep divisions over the EU's drive for a single market supervisor — a fight Luxembourg has long resisted to protect its outsized financial centre.
On the eve of Luxembourg's 23 June National Day, Prime Minister Luc Frieden is due to deliver the government's flagship annual address, extending the social-cohesion message of his May state-of-the-nation speech. The celebrations unfold under a red-alert heatwave and mark Grand Duke Guillaume's first National Day as reigning sovereign.
France and Germany have agreed to co-own armoured-vehicle maker KNDS as equal shareholders, ending a long-running governance dispute and opening the way to one of Europe's largest defence listings. Germany will buy a 40% stake from the company's German family owners, with a dual Frankfurt-Paris flotation targeted for July as EU rearmament spending accelerates.
Amazon and state-owned POST Luxembourg are launching next-day delivery to 184 PackUp lockers nationwide, starting with Prime Day 2026 — upgrading cross-border e-commerce and raising pressure on local retail.
Qatar kept four LNG tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz on 22 June even as Iran-driven disruption emptied the waterway, holding the line between a contained Gulf crisis and a renewed European gas-price shock.
Spain's Supreme Court has sentenced former transport minister José Luis Ábalos to 24 years in prison for leading a scheme that rigged COVID-19 mask contracts. His aide Koldo García received 19 years. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was not charged, but the verdict — the first in a wider run of graft cases — sharpens questions about the stability of his fragile coalition.
Luxembourg's registered jobseekers rose 6.5% year-on-year in May 2026 while employer vacancies climbed 7.6%, a divergence ADEM and the government attribute to a deepening skills mismatch.
An investigation by Le Soir and De Tijd puts €91 billion of wealth held by Belgium's 100 richest families in 416 Luxembourg companies, confirming the Grand Duchy's role as the destination of choice for cross-border private capital.