Germany's governing coalition agreed a 34-measure reform package on 2 July, combining €10 billion in annual income tax cuts with a pension overhaul, stricter sick-leave rules and less red tape — a breakthrough after months of internal deadlock.
German defence-AI and drone maker Helsing is closing in on a roughly $1.2bn funding round at an $18bn valuation, as record venture capital flows into European defence following NATO's 5% spending pledge and the EU's €800bn rearmament drive.
German prosecutors have filed the first charges over the 2022 Nord Stream sabotage, accusing a Ukrainian former soldier of war crimes. Kyiv says it is too early to respond.
Five people were shot dead at a youth welfare facility in Stade, northern Germany, on 29 June 2026, and a sixth later died in hospital. Police arrested a main suspect, detained two others and said there was no threat to the public.
Germany's modernised military service law, in force since January 2026, relies on volunteers and mandatory registration while keeping conscription in reserve — part of a Europe-wide rearmament that reaches Luxembourg and NATO.
The Landgericht Magdeburg sentenced Taleb al-Abdulmohsen to life in prison on 26 June 2026 for the December 2024 car attack that killed six people and injured more than 300, ruling the crime of 'particular severity' and finding him fully responsible despite a personality-disorder diagnosis. The verdict has sharpened a debate over how Christmas markets are protected across Germany and the Greater Region.
Fifteen years after suspending the draft, Germany has enacted a military-service law that stays voluntary but lets parliament switch on 'needs-based' conscription if too few volunteers come forward — part of a Europe-wide rearmament drive that reaches Luxembourg's own NATO spending commitments.
Volkswagen is reportedly planning to cut up to 100,000 jobs and close four German plants, doubling cuts announced in March and underscoring an industrial reckoning that stretches into Luxembourg's cross-border economy.
French commuters are driving almost all of Luxembourg's cross-border hiring while German numbers slip, reshaping the workforce that fills nearly half the Grand Duchy's jobs.
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.
On the night of 23 June 2026, a failure of Deutsche Bahn's GSM-R digital train radio forced every train in Germany to a standstill for roughly two and a half hours. Long-distance ICE services and city S-Bahn networks alike were held at platforms before a backup system restored operations after midnight. Because the regular Luxembourg–Trier–Koblenz services run on the same German network, the episode underlined how exposed Greater Region mobility is to a single technical fault.
A German commission has urged Berlin to raise the retirement age toward 70, scrap 'pension at 63' and add a Sweden-style investment pillar — a reckoning that echoes Luxembourg's own pension debate.
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.