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Over 26,000 mammograms were carried out as part of Luxembourg’s prevention programme in 2025, with the participation rate climbing back to 55.8%.

The participation rate in Luxembourg’s mammography programme has stabilised following a dip and has been rising again since 2020, reaching 55.8% in 2023. Health Minister Martine Deprez provided the figures in response to a parliamentary question from Green MP Djuna Bernard.

Luxembourg’s national breast screening programme, known as the Mammography Programme, is aimed at all women aged between 45 and 74, with the recommendation that they undergo a mammogram every two years to screen for breast cancer. Mammograms carried out under the programme are free of charge. As reminded by the Health Ministry, early breast cancer diagnosis is only possible through screening mammography.

Also today

• The National Health Fund (CNS) has increased reimbursement for prescription glasses by approximately 20 percent since the start of the year.
• A new cross-border cycle path connecting Arlon to Luxembourg is officially under way, with work on the BELU project having begun on Monday.
• A significant shake-up is underway in Esch-sur-Alzette’s local government, as three executive board members prepare to leave their posts and make way for new faces.
• Economic growth across the eurozone will slow to an estimated 1.1 percent this year as higher energy prices weigh on manufacturing, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.
• Pope Leo XIV arrived Tuesday in the Algerian city of Annaba, the birthplace of Christian theologian Saint Augustine, on day two of a historic trip marred by two suicide attacks.
• France’s interior minister is seeking to block US rapper Kanye West from performing in the southern city of Marseille in June due to his antisemitic remarks, a source close to the minister told AFP on Tuesday.

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Figure of the day

With nearly 17,500 additional students expected to enrol by 2050, Luxembourg is embarking on an ambitious school-building programme to keep pace with the country’s rapid population growth.

• Around 55,000 students are currently enrolled in Luxembourg’s high schools, but the country’s continued growth means that figure is set to rise sharply. By 2050, an additional 17,500 students could be seeking a place, and the current infrastructure will quickly render schools at full capacity.
• To address this, eleven new high schools are to be built across the Grand Duchy over the next 24 years, as Minister of Education and Spatial Planning Claude Meisch explained to a parliamentary committee on Tuesday morning. A new sectoral plan for high schools is currently being drawn up.

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