Luxembourg will host the European base of the Canada-led Defence, Security and Resilience Bank, a treaty-based lender backed by nine allies and unveiled at the 2026 NATO summit in Ankara.
Luxembourg's parliament has passed a law granting professional journalists a statutory right of access to official documents, tightening obligations on public bodies and overhauling press aid.
Luxembourg's first national risk-perception survey, conducted by Ilres among 1,500 residents, finds almost one in two would not know how to act in a crisis — even as awareness of cyber, flood and weather risks runs high.
Luc Frieden commemorated the Srebrenica genocide in Luxembourg alongside Bosnia's foreign minister, as EU enlargement and genocide denial in the Balkans keep the 1995 killings politically charged.
RTL Luxembourg says the government will fund the country's Eurovision participation for 2027, 2028 and 2029, extending a publicly backed return that cost about €1.1 million in 2024.
On his first National Day as reigning Grand Duke, Guillaume reviewed the military parade on Avenue de la Liberté and presided over the official ceremony at the Philharmonie, marking the symbolic start of a new reign eight months after Henri's abdication — and against a backdrop of record June heat.
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.
A 41-year-old Italian woman has been arrested in Rome under a Luxembourg arrest warrant, accused of helping launder more than €61 million stolen from Caritas Luxembourg. The detention is the latest in a widening international inquiry into the gravest institutional scandal in the Grand Duchy's recent memory.
Luxembourg has confirmed it will compete in the next three Eurovision Song Contests, with state-backed funding and RTL running a national final, doubling down on a comeback that began in 2024.
European Council President António Costa opened a diplomatic back channel to Moscow without broadly consulting EU governments, igniting a rift at the 18-19 June summit. Germany called it an 'affront,' France and the Baltics objected, while Luxembourg's Luc Frieden took a more measured line — insisting Europe first define a united position before any talks with Russia.