Forensic researchers at the Citizen Lab say former MEP Stelios Kouloglou, who sat on the European Parliament's PEGA committee investigating commercial spyware, was hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus at least twice in 2022 and 2023. No government has been named, but the case has reignited the Parliament's long-running fight over mercenary surveillance and rule-of-law safeguards 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.
The European Parliament's economic affairs committee votes on the digital euro on 23 June 2026, advancing a project the EU casts as a way to cut its reliance on Visa, Mastercard and PayPal — with consequences Luxembourg's financial centre will feel directly.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola has referred Luxembourgish MEP Fernand Kartheiser to the institution's ethics watchdog over his dealings with Russia, an unusual step that puts the Grand Duchy at the centre of an EU foreign-influence debate.
On 17 June 2026 the European Parliament gave final approval to deregulate plants made with new genomic techniques, exempting the simplest gene-edited crops from GMO labelling and risk checks. Luxembourg's three MEPs voted in favour, even as the country's environmental and farming NGOs warned the reform abandons a long-standing precautionary line and strips consumers of the right to know what is on their plate.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola has triggered a formal conduct inquiry into Luxembourg MEP Fernand Kartheiser over his attendance at a Russian economic forum and his dealings with the State Duma. One of the Grand Duchy's six MEPs, Kartheiser was already expelled from a parliamentary group last year over a Moscow trip and has dismissed the latest scrutiny as 'surreal.'