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Affordable housing will no longer be subject to the same density limits as those set out in the PAGs, and municipalities will be able to derogate more easily from parking requirements. (Photo: Paperjam/archive)
ECONOMY

Housing: building more and regulating better, the government’s new bet

While the government’s ambition to build faster and higher has yet to translate into concrete results on the ground – at least judging by the number of building permits issued in 2025 – it is now working on two fronts to deliver significantly more affordable housing and ease pressure on the rental market: giving municipalities greater resources and mapping rents.

Paperjam.lu • 10.09.2026
German bankers claim that the ECB is preparing to raise bank reserve requirements. This was half-heartedly dismissed by the President, Christine Lagarde, who stated that the matter had already been on the agenda and would be again. Business as usual. (Photo: Shutterstock)
ECONOMY

That one per cent could cost the banks €155m

Thierry Labro • 07.09.2026
According to Gilles Roth, if Europe wants to retain its technology companies, it must give them access to the funding they need. Even if there are nine failures for every success, even if the return to the local economy is difficult to estimate. (Photo: Guy Wolff/archive)
ECONOMY

Luxembourg Future Fund 3: season 3 of the state as a venture capitalist

Thierry Labro • 04.09.2026
In August alone, diesel prices rose by 12.3% and petrol prices by 0.8%, according to figures published on Friday 4 September by Statec. (Photo: Guy Wolff/archives)
ECONOMY

Diesel prices soar as gas and electricity prices fall

Ioanna Schimizzi • 04.09.2026
Andrew Bailey, Chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and Governor of the Bank of England, fears that a single shock could simultaneously trigger several financial vulnerabilities. (Photo: FSB)
ECONOMY

The FSB links the AI boom to the risks of a correction

Thierry Labro • 01.09.2026
Sinan Selen, president of the German domestic intelligence service (BfV), and Dr Ralf Wintergerst, president of Bitkom, at the presentation of the “Wirtschaftsschutzstudie 2026”. (Photo: BfV)
ECONOMY

Cyberattacks: Germany’s warning to Luxembourg

Thierry Labro • 31.08.2026
More than half of the cases referred to the Luxembourg Consumers’ Union relate to housing. However, the nature of these disputes has changed, with an increasing focus on tenancy and co-ownership. (Photo: Shutterstock)
ECONOMY

Property: the hidden side of everyday disputes

Thierry Labro • 28.08.2026
The electricity compensation mechanism generated net costs of €111.5m in 2025, according to the latest figures from the Luxembourg Regulatory Institute. (Photo: Shutterstock)
ECONOMY

Support for green electricity cost €111.5m

Ioanna Schimizzi • 28.08.2026
By 2025, suppliers had exceeded the 15% threshold for annual sales held in reserve: they had reported 1,558 GWh in storage, representing 23% of the country’s total gas consumption, according to the Ministry of the Economy (Photo: Shutterstock)
ECONOMY

Gas stocks: Luxembourg faces a winter of strain

Thierry Labro • 26.08.2026
Whilst Wero will be rolled out gradually from 1 September, Satispay and Worldline are taking part in the digital euro pilot, which is expected to ‘appear’ in 2029, with a few nuances to understand. (Photo: Shutterstock)
ECONOMY

Wero or the digital euro: Luxembourg is playing both sides

Thierry Labro • 25.08.2026
On Thursday morning, the young Luxembourger’s father asked him to take down his website, Status.lu, for good. This raises questions that will outlive him. (Photos: screenshot from status.lu, Shutterstock. Montage: Paperjam.)
ECONOMY

The end of Status.lu, the work of a young Luxembourger

Thierry Labro • 20.08.2026
“If several transport constraints were to persist or worsen simultaneously, delivery times could increase and further localised, temporary unavailability could occur,” said Eric Bleyer, chairman of the Groupement Energies Mobilité Luxembourg (GEML). Photo: Shutterstock
ECONOMY

Fuel supply strains grow as emergency reserves stay intact

Mike Gordon • 20.08.2026
In Luxembourg, 6.6% of employees and civil servants say they had suicidal thoughts in 2025, compared with 2.2% in 2014. The Quality of Work Index highlights more challenging working conditions and fewer resources. (Photo: Shutterstock)
ECONOMY

Suicidal thoughts in the workplace have tripled in Luxembourg

Ioanna Schimizzi • 17.08.2026
Luxembourg wants to boost its agri-food processing capacity in order to reduce its dependence on other countries. (Photo: Archives/Paperjam)
ECONOMY

Luxembourg is strengthening its food sovereignty

Marc Fassone • 07.08.2026
The ECB has introduced a new index that combines bank interest rates, credit volumes, lending criteria and various forms of banking and non-banking finance, in an attempt to measure intermediation conditions across the euro area as a whole, rather than just the cost of borrowing. (Photo: Shutterstock)
ECONOMY

Credit: Luxembourg is cheaper for businesses

Thierry Labro • 07.08.2026
With energy prices soaring, specialist trades – electrical installations, plumbing, heating, air conditioning and finishing works – account for 75 per cent of construction activity as measured by the ECB. (Photo: Shutterstock)
ECONOMY

The energy crisis is prompting households to carry out renovations

Thierry Labro • 06.08.2026
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