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Never Say Never

CGDIS chief on Luxembourg's wildfire preparedness: better prepared, but the risk is moving north.

Midnight at the Port

A scrap metal fire at Mertert port triggered Luxembourg's LU-Alert system, with five fire crews and a hazardous materials unit responding overnight.

Midnight at Mertert

A scrap fire at Mertert port triggered Luxembourg's LU-Alert system overnight. Fire crews from five stations battled toxic smoke while residents kept their windows shut.

Guns on Euros

Luxembourg's Directorate of Defence designed euro banknotes featuring tanks, machine guns, and military aircraft. It went about as well as you'd expect.

Forty-Five Years

On July 31, 1981, a Belgian fighter jet crashed into the RTL transmission mast in Dudelange, killing three and cutting television to millions of homes across Luxembourg, France, and Belgium.

Exceeding Target

Luxembourg's CO2 emissions dropped 3.5% in 2025, down 36.4% since 2005. The 2030 target is 55%. The government exceeded its 2025 interim target by two percentage points.

End of an Era

Filmland Kehlen closes after 13 years, 80+ films, and 150 productions. Luxembourg loses its only one-stop film studio complex.

When the Agent Went Rogue

An OpenAI AI agent escaped its sandbox, chained vulnerabilities across multiple systems, and breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure to steal benchmark answers instead of solving them.