Donald Trump has threatened tariffs after the EU fined Google under the Digital Markets Act. Luxembourg's direct US trade is limited, but its open economy and financial centre remain exposed to a wider dispute.
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.
The EU has specified how Google must share anonymised search data with eligible rival search engines and search-enabled AI services from January 2027. The measure will also apply in Luxembourg.
Luxembourg's largest environmental NGO, Mouvement Écologique, is challenging the approval process for Google's planned hyperscale data centre in Bissen, threatening administrative court action over data secrecy, energy and water demand, and unused waste heat. The government backs the project as strategically vital; no final authorisation or Google go-ahead has been decided.
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.
Google's long-delayed €1 billion data centre in Bissen has cleared a key planning hurdle even as an environmental review drew some 170 objections over water use, electricity demand and land take — a local flashpoint in Europe's wider reckoning with the energy cost of the AI boom.
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.
Western Europe lived through its hottest June on record in 2026, EU scientists say, with the extreme heat reaching Luxembourg through red warnings, a river water-extraction ban and plans for a new mobile social-emergency service.
The General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg dismissed Apple's challenge to its 'gatekeeper' designation under the Digital Markets Act on 8 July 2026, confirming that the App Store and iOS remain bound by the bloc's rules for Big Tech. Complaints over iMessage were ruled inadmissible. Apple may appeal to the Court of Justice.
The Warsaw listing of Burger King and Popeyes operator Rex Concepts traces back to Rex Invest CEE, a Luxembourg holding company controlled by private-equity firm McWin — a case study in the Grand Duchy's role as Europe's holding hub.
The European Stability Mechanism, the eurozone's €500 billion crisis backstop based in Luxembourg, has not lent to a country since Greece in 2018. Its managing director, Pierre Gramegna, is now floating new missions — including defence credit lines — even as a treaty reform to give the fund a banking-union role remains blocked by Italy.
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.
The European Public Prosecutor's Office, headquartered in Luxembourg, carried out searches in four countries in its investigation into some €4.3 million in allegedly irregular spending by the far-right Identity and Democracy group between 2019 and 2024.
Luxembourg's latest forest surveys find only about one in five trees undamaged, with beech and spruce worst hit and the national woodland now emitting more carbon than it stores.
The Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg on 2 July 2026 dismissed Google and Alphabet's final appeal in the Android antitrust case, confirming a €4.125 billion fine — the largest ever upheld by the EU's highest court. The judgment ends a saga that began with the European Commission's 2018 decision and cements Brussels' most consequential victory in its decade-long campaign against Big Tech.
As a heatwave drove Luxembourg's rivers to critical oxygen levels, EU data and LIST research underline a stark reality: almost none of the country's waterways meet the 'good' ecological status the EU requires by 2027.
Ireland took over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 July 2026 and set out its priorities at an event in Luxembourg, framing its six months around competitiveness, values and security while pushing negotiations on the 2028–2034 EU budget and enlargement.
Spain recorded its second-hottest June since 1961, and public-health monitors attributed more than 1,000 excess deaths to the heat — more than double June 2025. The same heat dome pushed red alerts across Luxembourg.
Ukraine has asked EU governments to direct €6.6 billion available under the European Peace Facility into military aid within a 'six-to-nine-month window', a request that lands on every member state, Luxembourg included.
Solar power became the single largest source of electricity generated inside Luxembourg in 2025, overtaking wind, according to figures from the regulator ILR. Photovoltaic output rose 74.3% to 627 GWh, but imports still met roughly 72% of national consumption, underlining how far the country remains from its 2030 renewables goals.
Cargolux, Luxembourg's flag cargo carrier, has agreed to pay about €1.15 million after a Luxembourg court ratified a negotiated settlement over influence-peddling linked to its operations in Gabon between 2010 and 2015. The case, which the airline voluntarily disclosed in 2015, targets only the company and no individuals — a rare corporate-governance moment for a champion majority-controlled by the Luxembourg state.
Publisher Mike Koedinger launched a Luxembourg-based foundation on 25 June, warning that press freedom and democratic debate cannot be taken for granted even in one of the world's highest-ranked countries.
Russia's central bank, growth, budget and banking data all show a war economy under real pressure in mid-2026, yet most analysts read the picture as erosion rather than collapse — a distinction that matters for how long Moscow can fund the war and for the EU sanctions strategy Luxembourg helps shape.
A bill before Luxembourg's parliament would scrap the rule that defers sexually active gay and bisexual men from giving whole blood and base eligibility on individual risk instead. Examined in committee on 29 June 2026, the measure tracks a broader European shift away from orientation-based donor screening, though it is not yet law.