Privacy, by architecture.

Pollar runs on our own servers in the EU, no US cloud. Analytics are self-hosted and cookieless (Umami). We set no advertising cookies. We load no third-party trackers. Built to WCAG 2.1 AA, works for everyone. AI-supported, human-edited. The AI personalising your feed also runs in the EU.

Privacy & data sovereignty
Pollar
HomeAskLiveSearchMapMarketsNotificationsFor You
BriefThreadsMarkets
Privacy
Fabian Picardo

Fabian Picardo

Gibraltarian politician

View on Wikipedia
  • 3h ago

    Spain removes Gibraltar from tax haven list after 35 years, adds Russia

    Spain's Finance Ministry published an order today removing Gibraltar and five other jurisdictions from the country's list of tax havens after verifying effective tax information exchange. Russia is added due to a harmful tax regime.

Today’s Brief

589 dead and Hormuz wobbles

Quake devastates Venezuela as Hormuz drones and European heat test fragile systems

The past half-day brought a brutal mix of physical shocks and political ones. Venezuela is still digging through rubble, Europe is still baking, and the Gulf is learning how thin a ceasefire can be when drones meet oil lanes.

Read the Brief

Reader-supported

Free to read, and staying that way

No ads, no trackers. Membership keeps Pollar independent.

Support Pollar

Live now

All live coverage
  • Germany records 40.2C June heatwave

    Surpasses previous records as temperatures hit 41.5C in Saxony-Anhalt, prompting Berlin police to deploy water cannons for public cooling.

In the spotlight

All threads

Other · Updated 34m ago

Culture, media and the new divides

The understanding of the information space has broadened to explicitly include cultural soft-power campaigns and information operations by state-aligned actors, and the EU's response to them.

HomeBriefThreadsAsk
Categories