The Chamber of Deputies, the governing coalition, the parties and the elections — and the decisions taken in Luxembourg City that shape the country and its place in Europe.
Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have deposited formal notifications of withdrawal from the International Criminal Court with the UN Secretary-General, turning their September 2025 announcement into a binding legal process that takes effect in June 2027.
The US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's executive order ending automatic citizenship for many US-born children, ruling 6-3 that the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship.
A US-brokered agreement linking Israel's withdrawal to Hezbollah's disarmament has split Lebanon, with the armed group calling the deal a surrender and warning of internal conflict.
A senior US official says Washington and Tehran have agreed to stop attacking each other and return to talks in Doha on 30 June, a de-escalation that has steadied oil prices and drawn cautious EU welcome.
After all but closing the Strait of Hormuz since late February, Iran turned the world's busiest oil chokepoint into a tollbooth, charging tankers up to $2 million a crossing. A US-brokered memorandum has paused the fees for 60 days, but the dispute over whether a state can charge the world to cross an international strait is far from settled.
Israel's cabinet voted unanimously on 28 June 2026 to recognise the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first official state act after a century of reticence shaped by ties with Turkey and Azerbaijan. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar called it a moral and historical duty; the resolution now heads to the Knesset. Turkey condemned the move as a political decision designed to cover Israel's own conduct in Gaza.
Luxembourg has deployed a CGDIS rescue team and its emergency.lu satellite communications system to earthquake-hit Venezuela through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, as the death toll from twin 24 June quakes passes 1,430 with tens of thousands missing. The foreign ministry says 22 nationals registered in the country have not contacted consular services.
As Turkey readies to host NATO's leaders in Ankara on 7-8 July, it has detained more than 200 critics and banned all protests, drawing condemnation from rights groups and renewed questions over its EU candidacy.
Israel and Lebanon, still technically at war, signed a US-mediated framework on 26 June pledging to end their conflict through a sequenced, conditional process. Israel will hand two pilot zones to the Lebanese army once Hezbollah is disarmed there, but keeps its security zone and sets no timetable. Beirut called it a first step; Hezbollah rejected it.
A renewed tanker strike and US retaliation have tested the June ceasefire between Washington and Tehran, leaving the six Gulf monarchies to mediate, hedge and absorb the risks to oil flows and European energy security.
A Luxembourg court convicted former Differdange mayor Roberto Traversini of conflict-of-interest offences and barred him from office for five years — a first-instance ruling that confirms how broadly local officials can be held personally liable.
A Seoul court jailed former South Korean first lady Kim Keon-hee for seven years for bribery, ruling she traded on her status as the president's wife to broker jobs and business favours in return for jewellery, a designer handbag and fine art. She was also fined 64.8 million won and vowed to appeal.
With the Iran war paused, southern Syria — Israel's buffer zone in Quneitra and Daraa and the Druze crisis around Suwayda — is emerging as the front Europe fears most.
Lebanon, Israel and the United States signed a trilateral framework agreement in Washington on 26 June 2026, setting out a sequenced process to disarm Hezbollah and eventually withdraw Israeli forces. Hours later Hezbollah, excluded from the talks, rejected the deal, exposing the framework's central weakness.
The IAEA's director general says inspections of Iran's nuclear sites are 'going to happen' under the Islamabad Memorandum, but Iran says access to bombed sites awaits a final deal. For the EU, which triggered snapback sanctions in 2025 and co-sponsored a June 2026 board resolution, restoring verification is the central test of whether Iran's programme can return under international oversight.
New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 on June 25 to freeze rents on about one million rent-stabilised apartments for leases starting October 2026, fulfilling Mayor Zohran Mamdani's signature campaign pledge. The first-ever freeze on two-year leases was cheered by tenant advocates and condemned by landlords, who warn of decaying buildings and are expected to sue. The vote resonates far beyond New York, in cities such as Luxembourg where housing affordability dominates politics.
Luxembourg's parliament is again debating whether to let 16-year-olds vote, but the governing CSV-DP coalition has confined its electoral-reform plans to changes that avoid a constitutional overhaul, leaving votes at 16 unlikely for the 2028 election absent a two-thirds majority or a fresh referendum.
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Doe that federal courts cannot review the Trump administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria, clearing the way to strip protections from more than 350,000 Haitians and about 6,000 Syrians.
Keiko Fujimori has edged the closest presidential runoff in Peru's modern history, beating leftist Roberto Sánchez by roughly 42,000 votes (50.1% to 49.9%) in the 7 June vote. The result hands the daughter of the late president Alberto Fujimori the office she lost three times before — but Sánchez alleges fraud in the decisive overseas ballots, refuses to recognise the outcome, and the National Jury of Elections has yet to formally proclaim a winner.
Luxembourg's parliament is set to vote on a bill expanding police powers to order people to leave public places for up to 48 hours, over warnings from the Council of State and rights groups that the grounds are too vague.
