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Weekends Only

Cine Sura in Echternach reopens after federation fallout. Expelled from CDAC, weekend-only screenings, full programme by September. Questions remain.

Teddy Bears

Three organisations protest in Luxembourg City for child protection reforms. Weekly child rape reports. Open letter to PM Frieden unanswered. Bring a teddy bear.

Sixty-Eight, Again

EU Commissioner Hansen on agriculture: 68 EKABE dairy farms at risk, fertiliser dependency, climate adaptation, quality over mass production. The number that was a headline returns as a warning.

Not a Crisis

LSAP midterm review: government lacks leadership and coherence. Housing not in crisis mode. Health uncoordinated. Tax reform without counter-financing. Bofferding offers her dachshund.

Forty-Eight

Luxembourg's long-term care insurance: €48.3 million surplus, down from €80.7 million. Ageing population, growing beneficiaries, chronic illnesses. The surplus is shrinking.

Sovereign AI in the Grand Duchy

Luxembourg's CTIE is running AI in its own data centres with a Mistral partnership. 14,000 civil servants already have access to an internal chatbot. The sovereignty argument is interesting.

Inkling

Thinking Machines released a 975 billion parameter open-weights model under Apache 2.0. The former OpenAI CTO did what her old employer won't.

Seven Measures, Thirty-Five Million

Luxembourg's government unveiled a construction booster package: higher tax credits, accelerated depreciation, and zero registration duty on off-plan homes until 80% complete. The total cost is remarkably small.