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Marie-Anne Kayser leads the Étude newsroom. She previously covered EU finance for the Financial Times and reported from Brussels for a decade.
Luxembourg's national innovation agency closed 2025 with its highest-ever support count and launched a redesigned, four-pillar service model. Minister Lex Delles and CEO Mario Grotz also confirmed the Luxembourg AI Factory, part of the EU's 19-strong AI Factory network, has assisted around 150 organisations since launch.
EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra spent two days in Luxembourg in mid-April, meeting Prime Minister Frieden, Foreign Minister Bettel and Environment Minister Wilmes. Discussions ranged from ETS2 implementation to international climate finance — and ended with the Commissioner accepting an invitation to open Luxembourg's first International Climate Finance Days in June.
Luxembourg's coalition has adopted a Climate Social Plan to shield vulnerable households and micro-enterprises from rising carbon costs. Within weeks, the country's largest unions and an environmental NGO welcomed the framework but warned it lacks firm budgets, clear target groups, and a binding timeline.
Luxembourg's CSV-DP coalition presented a €30 billion budget on Monday that indexes tax brackets, cuts the surcharge, and pours €1.4 billion into housing — at the cost of a wider deficit through 2028.
Luxembourg's tram network reached the Cloche d'Or business park on Sunday, eight months behind schedule, as Luxtram reports daily ridership above 130,000.
Luxembourg used a Brussels keynote to set out a Council presidency built around a relaunched Capital Markets Union, defence financing, and a securitisation rulebook overhaul.
The Cinémathèque's redesigned permanent exhibition treats a century of Luxembourgish film as serious cultural history rather than nostalgic curiosity.