Luxembourg has been selected as the European hub of a proposed multilateral defence bank led by Canada. The project has nine government backers but still requires ratification and capital commitments.
Luxembourg supports a stronger, data-driven Europol capable of connecting cross-border investigations. The Commission’s proposed safeguards and separate judicial reforms now face scrutiny by EU lawmakers.
Russia struck Kyiv with ballistic and cruise missiles and drones in the early hours of Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens — the second assault on the capital in a week and the last before NATO's 32 leaders meet in Ankara on 7-8 July. The attack sharpens a summit agenda dominated by air defence, a 5% spending pledge and the transatlantic dynamic with Washington — decisions that reach every European capital, Luxembourg included.
Lithuania's leaders have agreed to remove a constitutional ban on nuclear weapons as the country presses to join NATO's nuclear-deterrence posture against Russia, hardening a debate that reaches across the EU.
Occupied Crimea is rationing or running short of fuel, water and electricity as Ukraine's long-range drone campaign degrades Russia's rear, a sign of how attrition is shaping the war and keeping Europe on alert.
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.