Luxembourg's prison population jumped 20% in a year. The Council of Europe's annual penal statistics paint a picture of a small country with outsized incarceration patterns: nearly four in five prisoners are foreign nationals, and almost half have yet to receive a verdict.
Luxembourg's prison population jumped 20% in a year. 78% of inmates are foreign nationals. The numbers tell an uncomfortable story about who gets locked up in a wealthy country.
Luc Frieden delivers his third State of the Nation address amid an energy crisis, a housing market in freefall, and questions about whether Luxembourg can still afford its own promises.
Frieden's second state of the nation address: defence bonds, pension reform, energy subsidies, and the question nobody can answer about how to pay for all of it.
Schrassig prison is getting a renovation. 392 people live there, 40 of them women. The restructuring of Bloc F is long overdue.
Nearly 4,000 students start their final exams in Luxembourg. 56% are women. The gap has a story to tell.
Six months after five people died on the N15, the section speed camera between Niederfeulen and Fuussekaul moves from testing to enforcement. Fines start 18 May.
Luxembourg's new biometric passport launched this week: valid for ten years instead of five, still 50 euros, and ranked among the top three in the world. What the document says about the country that issues it.