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Luxembourg has ranked tenth in ILGA Europe’s Rainbow Map, confirming its place among the continent’s most progressive countries, the ministry of equality has said while urging the fight for LGBTIQ+ rights to continue. The index, based on laws and policies, has given Luxembourg a score around sixty-eight percent, reflecting major progress over the past decade but also stalling relative to faster-moving peers like Spain. ILGA Europe and the government have warned that legal gains do not always match lived experience, noting recent online hate and vandalism and calling for continued solidarity and action.
The country is preparing for a costly shift after EU talks advanced on revising cross-border unemployment rules, with ministers estimating the reform could add about €200 million a year to state costs and force a major reallocation of resources. The government has said the transfer will widen employment agency ADEM’s role in following up thousands of frontier workers, requiring staffing, tech upgrades and new cross-border data links, and the labour ministry has budgeted operating costs to support ADEM while negotiations and implementation timelines continue toward 2031–33.
Post Luxembourg has reported a 38% profit fall to €31m in 2025, down from €50m, and will pay a €5m dividend, the company has said. It has blamed lower net interest margins and strong inflationary cost pressures. Luxembourg director general Claude Strasser has called the previous year challenging and recalled a July 2025 network attack that cut internet and phone services for thousands for hours.
