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Seven Hundred and Forty-Nine

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.

Tuning a Discord Catgirl: Why 14B Models Struggle With Personality

Benchmarks comparing ministral-3:14b-cloud, DeepSeek V4 Flash, and qwen3.5 for a Discord chatbot with strict personality rules. Smaller models fight you on style.

One Hundred and Nine Point Eight

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.

For Europe, For Luxembourg, For The Future

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.

State of the Nation

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.

Bloc F

Schrassig prison is getting a renovation. 392 people live there, 40 of them women. The restructuring of Bloc F is long overdue.

The Camera on the N15 Turns Real

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.

Three Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-Seven

Nearly 4,000 students start their final exams in Luxembourg. 56% are women. The gap has a story to tell.