As a Paris court prepares to rule on Marine Le Pen's appeal on 7 July, her protégé Jordan Bardella has overtaken her in the polls and is positioned to carry France's far right into the 2027 presidential race.
Preliminary mortality data published this week show the late-June heatwave caused 2,025 excess deaths in France and an unprecedented 39% rise in Belgian mortality, with at least 3,700 excess deaths across France, Belgium and the Netherlands combined. Luxembourg recorded its hottest June since measurements began in 1947, including a new 38.2°C June record at Findel, and forecasters warn extreme heat could return to the region in the first half of July.
A record-breaking June heatwave has swept much of Europe, with France warning its death toll will keep rising and the WHO linking more than 1,300 excess deaths to the heat. Luxembourg spent much of the week under a MeteoLux red alert, with schools, construction and rail services disrupted and the government activating its heat plan.
All 11 people aboard a German-registered Pilatus PC-6 died when the skydiving aircraft crashed moments after take-off near Nancy on Sunday, one of the deadliest civil aviation accidents in France in decades and a tragedy on the edge of the Greater Region.
EU environment ministers meeting in Luxembourg on 25 June 2026 laid bare a Franco-German split over the 2035 combustion-engine phase-out, as the bloc weighs a Commission proposal to soften the target to a 90% emissions cut with e-fuels, biofuels and hybrids.
A French court convicted the captain of the Russia-linked tanker Boracay, intercepted by navy commandos off Brittany, in what is seen as Europe's first criminal penalty for obstructing the policing of Moscow's shadow fleet.
Pope Leo XIV will end his 25-28 September trip to France in Metz, celebrating Mass at the Cathedral of Saint-Étienne in a leg dedicated to European reconciliation and the legacy of EU founding father Robert Schuman. The Moselle city sits inside Luxembourg's cross-border catchment, putting a papal gesture toward a divided Europe on the Grand Duchy's doorstep.
France has confirmed its first Ebola case on national soil — a doctor back from DR Congo, now isolated in a Paris-area hospital. The ECDC rates the risk to the European population as very low.
Jordan Bardella's Rassemblement National has spelled out a plan to stay inside the EU while gutting its rules from within. For Luxembourg — 47% of whose workers commute across borders — the stakes are existential.
Donald Trump has threatened a 100% US tariff on all French wine and champagne unless Paris drops its digital services tax, a move that pulls European exporters and the EU's collective trade defence — Luxembourg included — back into the firing line.
An exceptionally early heatwave drove France to record temperatures and put more than half the country under red alert, while Luxembourg and the wider Greater Region stood up a crisis command post and warned the heat would intensify from Wednesday.
France's domestic intelligence service will replace Palantir's software with French firm ChapsVision, an early test of European strategic autonomy in critical software that reaches data-heavy Luxembourg.
France and Germany have agreed to co-own armoured-vehicle maker KNDS as equal shareholders, ending a long-running governance dispute and opening the way to one of Europe's largest defence listings. Germany will buy a 40% stake from the company's German family owners, with a dual Frankfurt-Paris flotation targeted for July as EU rearmament spending accelerates.