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The 2026 budget pushes Luxembourg's CO₂ price one step higher in a planned escalation that began at €20/tonne. The depreciation rate on sustainable energy renovations of rental housing rises from 6% to 10%.
20-year-old Eva Marija Kavaš Puc won the Luxembourg Song Contest at Rockhal on 24 January 2026 with 'Mother Nature' — the country's first ever Eurovision entry performed entirely in English.
QS places the University of Luxembourg at #381 globally for 2026, while Times Higher Education ranks it 251–300. Its first appearance in THE's Interdisciplinary Science Ranking puts it 26th in Europe.
Coinbase has been authorised under MiCA by the CSSF and is using Luxembourg as its regional crypto hub, joining more than 30 non-EU firms that established a presence ahead of the 1 July 2026 transition deadline.
Total assets in Luxembourg-domiciled funds reached €6,436 billion at end-February 2026 — and on 4 February the regulator quietly opened the door to controlled crypto exposure for UCITS.
On 12 March 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the surcharge applied to non-residents working in Luxembourg violates EU law — a decision with consequences for around 228,000 cross-border workers.
Berlin has reauthorised internal Schengen controls on all nine of its land borders, including Luxembourg, until 15 September 2026 — citing migration and security pressures even as routine stationary checkpoints come down.
EDF wants to extend the lifespan of the four-reactor Cattenom nuclear plant on Luxembourg's doorstep until at least 2035. Reactor 1's pivotal fourth ten-yearly safety review takes place in 2026.
The Chamber of Deputies has greenlit a €301 million package to build, launch and operate a second sovereign government and defence communications satellite, deepening the LuxGovSat joint venture with SES.
The Luxembourg-headquartered satellite operator is launching a national Space Campus to bring core design, integration and manufacturing in-house — a strategic break with four decades of outsourcing.
On 3 October 2025, Henri signed the Act of Abdication at the Grand Ducal Palace in front of the Belgian and Dutch monarchs, and his son Guillaume was sworn in as Grand Duke at the Chamber of Deputies the same day.
Since March 2025, Luxembourg's Tram Line 1 runs the full 16 km from Findel airport through the city. Ridership has more than quintupled in five years, yet around 70% of work commutes are still by car.
Individuals investing in qualifying start-ups will be able to claim a credit equal to 20% of their investment, up to €100,000 per year — a deliberate nudge to deepen Luxembourg's domestic risk-capital pool.
Both agencies left the Grand Duchy's top-tier rating untouched, citing institutional strength and a dynamic financial sector — even as the social contribution rate rises from 24% to 25.5% in 2026.
QASM, a cold-atom interferometer designed to detect critical minerals and water from orbit, will see its first lab demonstrations in 2026 under a contract between the LSA and Canadian Space Mining Corporation.
The Luxembourg-based 5G IoT operator secures venture-debt financing from the European Investment Bank to scale its constellation and connect machines wherever cellular networks don't reach.
A new sovereign supercomputer with more than 2,100 GPU-AI accelerators puts the Grand Duchy on Europe's AI infrastructure map, with half of capacity reserved for national use.
From Europe's oldest funfair to a night marathon, a Pride run and an international space-resources summit, Luxembourg's 2026 events calendar is unusually full for a country its size.
Luxembourg's pensions rise 1.5% from 1 January 2026, alongside higher contributions, broader recognition of working years and more flexibility near retirement, in a wider attempt to keep the system solvent.
Speaking at Harvard's Center for European Studies, Luxembourg's Prime Minister called for a more autonomous Europe — on defence, energy and capital markets — without burning bridges with Washington.
The Grand Duchy is opening its growing defence budget to private savers, with a new sovereign bond whose interest income is exempt from personal tax.
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.