Luxembourg's 2025 report on domestic violence shows police interventions up 10% and evictions at a new high, as officials credit greater willingness to report but warn the trend is worrying.
Luxembourg's all-volunteer army is running a recruitment push fronted by former cycling champion Christine Majerus, now a First Lieutenant, as the rest of Europe debates a return to conscription.
Luxembourg police were called to 1,297 domestic-violence incidents in 2025, a 10.1% rise and the highest in a decade, with 334 perpetrators ordered out of their homes and shelters running waiting lists.
Luxembourg's government has unveiled a draft law to govern automated vehicles, from type-approval and registration to liability and supervision. Presented to parliament on 25 June, it splits vehicles into conditionally and highly automated categories and is part of a bid to become the first EU state with a full legal framework by 2028.
Canadian Defence Minister David McGuinty visited Luxembourg on 19 June 2026, the first trip by a Canadian federal minister in 81 years of diplomatic ties, advancing defence cooperation as Europe and Canada deepen security links.
At a NATO defence ministers' meeting in Brussels on 18 June 2026, Luxembourg pledged an additional $30 million (about €26 million) to the alliance's Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List, which buys US-made weapons for Kyiv. The commitment lands as Luxembourg charts a fourfold rise in defence spending by 2035 toward NATO's new 5% target.
Canadian Defence Minister David McGuinty made the first visit by a member of his country's federal government to Luxembourg in 81 years on Friday, deepening ties as the transatlantic alliance scrambles to fund rearmament. The trip sits against a thickening web of allied defence finance — the EU's €150bn SAFE programme, which Canada has joined; the Luxembourg-based EIB's expanding defence lending; and the proposed Defence, Security and Resilience Bank, which Canada will host.