# Pollar

> Start with an event. Pollar is a pan-European editorial news outlet with AI-assisted summaries, evergreen topic threads, a daily brief, and live market data. Content is published in English, Polish, German, and French; the locale prefix in URLs selects the language (e.g. /en/, /pl/, /de/, /fr/).

## Daily editorial

- [Daily brief](https://pollar.news/en/brief): twice-daily editorial digest of EU + world news, ~5 minutes of reading
- [Markets](https://pollar.news/en/markets): EU + global indices, EUR-pivoted FX, commodities, crypto, US Treasury bonds — refreshed minute-by-minute from Yahoo Finance
- [Explore on map](https://pollar.news/en/explore): events plotted geographically across Europe and the world

## Evergreen threads

12 long-running topic threads grouped into europe / world / other. Each thread has a thesis, a current state-of-play, week highlights, and a chronicle of recent developments (updated every 6h by the research agent).

- [Brussels vs capitals: EU integration](https://pollar.news/en/threads/eu-integration): Sovereignty within the European Union is not static; it is continuously contested and renegotiated through legal rulings, treaty interpretat
- [The Green Deal under revision](https://pollar.news/en/threads/green-deal): The EU's climate agenda has formally pivoted from legislative expansion to a phase of implementation, simplification, and competitiveness-dr
- [The ageing Union's economy](https://pollar.news/en/threads/eu-economy): Europe's economic competitiveness is under pressure from low productivity, weak investment, demographic decline, and the cost of the green t
- [European democracies and populism](https://pollar.news/en/threads/democracy-populism): Populist and anti-liberal political forces are gaining institutional ground within the European Union, testing and at times reshaping the bo
- [Demography and migration](https://pollar.news/en/threads/demography-migration): An ageing Europe faces a structural need for labour immigration to sustain its economy and welfare systems, yet political sentiment across m
- [AI: capabilities, regulation, labour](https://pollar.news/en/threads/ai-revolution): The rapid convergence of frontier-model capabilities is compressing competitive advantage cycles and testing regulatory guardrails, while th
- [Climate: from mitigation to adaptation](https://pollar.news/en/threads/climate-adaptation): The world has crossed the 1.5°C warming threshold, forcing a pivotal narrative shift from solely preventing climate change to urgently adapt
- [Culture, media and the new divides](https://pollar.news/en/threads/culture-media): The European information ecosystem faces increasing pressure from collapsing traditional media business models, algorithmic-driven polarizat
- [China and the West: decoupling](https://pollar.news/en/threads/china-west): The strategic de-risking of Western economies from China has escalated into a reciprocal regulatory conflict, where China's new legal counte
- [The war in Ukraine and its limits](https://pollar.news/en/threads/ukraine-war): The war is characterized by a reciprocal escalation of long-range strikes, with Ukraine systematically targeting Russian logistics and energ
- [The Middle East after Gaza](https://pollar.news/en/threads/middle-east): The Gaza war has accelerated a fundamental realignment of Middle Eastern power, shifting influence from traditional centers like Egypt and S
- [The US under Trump: second term](https://pollar.news/en/threads/us-under-trump): US foreign policy under the Trump administration is shifting decisively from multilateralism toward a doctrine of transactional bilateral ba

## Recent events (last 50)

Individual event briefs, AI-summarised from multiple sources, with structured locations / mentioned people / source attribution.

- [Six killed and at least 15 injured in Thai school shooting; student gunman also dead](https://pollar.news/en/event/school-shooting-near-bangkok): A 14-year-old student fatally shot his grandparents before opening fire at Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi province on 7 August, ki
- [Trump signs two executive orders targeting birthright citizenship and birth tourism after Supreme Court setback](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-curbs-birthright-citizenship-anew): President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on August 6, 2026, targeting birthright citizenship and birth tourism, weeks after the Su
- [New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $567 million for teen mental health fund, bringing total penalties to $942 million](https://pollar.news/en/event/meta-fined-567m-for-child-harms): A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a teen mental health fund on 6 August 2026, on top of $375 million in earlier civil
- [FIFA apologizes for World Cup sell-off plan but UEFA keeps boycott threat alive](https://pollar.news/en/event/uefa-threatens-world-cup-boycott): FIFA apologized to its 211 member associations for mistakes around the abandoned plan to sell World Cup commercial rights, but UEFA maintain
- [Explosive drone found near Ukrainian Antonov cargo planes at Leipzig/Halle Airport prompts German federal terror investigation](https://pollar.news/en/event/drone-found-at-leipzig-airport): A drone fitted with professional explosives was found near Ukrainian Antonov cargo planes at Leipzig/Halle Airport on 4 August 2026, prompti
- [Apollo to take easyJet private in £5.7 billion deal after Castlelake exits](https://pollar.news/en/event/apollo-acquires-easyjet-for-57-billion): Apollo Global Management agreed to buy easyJet for £5.70 billion ($7.7 billion) at £7.15 per share, ending a months-long bidding war after r
- [Nawrocki marks first year as president with strategy pledge, cost inquiry and political crossfire](https://pollar.news/en/event/nawrockis-first-year-in-review): President Karol Nawrocki marked the first anniversary of his swearing-in on August 6 with a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, a
- [De la Espriella takes office in Cali as Colombia's new far-right president, reshaping diplomacy and security](https://pollar.news/en/event/colombia-inaugurates-far-right-president): Abelardo De la Espriella will be sworn in as president of Colombia on Friday in Cali, the first inauguration held outside Bogotá, as he vows
- [Congo's Ebola outbreak surpasses 4,000 cases as unpaid health workers protest and vaccine plan expands](https://pollar.news/en/event/congo-ebola-outbreak-worsens): The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record has exceeded 4,000 confirmed cases in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with health workers
- [China's July exports climb 23.9% as AI demand offsets trade tensions](https://pollar.news/en/event/china-exports-jump-239-in-july): China's exports rose 23.9% year-on-year in July in dollar terms, beating forecasts, while imports grew 27.5%, customs data showed on Friday,
- [Four Spanish ministers to face Congress in late August over Ceuta migration crisis](https://pollar.news/en/event/ministers-face-congress-over-ceuta): Four Spanish ministers will appear before Congress in late August to explain their handling of the Ceuta migration crisis, after more than 7
- [Bolojan signals PNL openness to technocratic government as Romania awaits Moody's verdict](https://pollar.news/en/event/bolojan-backs-technocratic-government): Interim Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said PNL could support a technocratic government with a parliamentary majority, as Romania awaits Moody'
- [24 injured as two trams collide in Gelsenkirchen, three in life-threatening condition](https://pollar.news/en/event/trams-collide-in-gelsenkirchen): Two trams collided on Thursday in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, when a passenger tram on line 302 crashed into a stopped driving school tram, leav
- [Polish Senate rejects Nawrocki's EU climate referendum for the second time](https://pollar.news/en/event/senate-blocks-climate-referendum): The Polish Senate voted on 6 August 2026 to reject President Karol Nawrocki's request for a nationwide referendum on EU climate policy, the 
- [Real Madrid signs 19-year-old Yan Diomandé from Leipzig for club-record €125 million](https://pollar.news/en/event/real-madrid-signs-diomande): Real Madrid has signed 19-year-old Ivorian winger Yan Diomandé from RB Leipzig on a seven-year deal worth up to €140 million with bonuses, m
- [Robert Pattinson hunts predators as Chris Hansen in A24's Primetime trailer](https://pollar.news/en/event/pattinson-becomes-hansen-in-primetime): A24's full trailer for Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, dropped August 6 ahead of a Venice com
- [Stanford researchers use AI to design first fully functional synthetic viruses](https://pollar.news/en/event/ai-creates-first-synthetic-viruses): Scientists at Stanford and the Arc Institute used generative AI to design 16 fully functional bacteriophages, the first time AI has created 
- [Le Court wins Tour de France Femmes stage six after crash and mechanical, Reusser keeps yellow jersey](https://pollar.news/en/event/tour-femmes-2026-begins): Kimberley Le Court of Mauritius recovered from a crash and a mechanical problem to win stage six of the Tour de France Femmes in Tournon-sur
- [ARD poll: AfD hits record 28% as Union slumps to 21%, government satisfaction at 13%](https://pollar.news/en/event/afd-hits-record-poll-high): The AfD reaches 28 percent in the ARD-Deutschlandtrend, its highest ever, while the CDU/CSU falls to 21 percent and 85 percent of Germans ex
- [Iran-Oman deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz nears as Trump cancels strikes](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-pauses-iran-strikes): Iran and Oman have reached a preliminary agreement on transit routes through the Strait of Hormuz, sending Brent crude from roughly $100 to 
- [Russia downs 605 Ukrainian drones overnight as UN condemns both sides for civilian strikes](https://pollar.news/en/event/605-drones-downed-overnight): Russia said it shot down 605 Ukrainian drones across 20 regions overnight, as UN Secretary General Guterres condemned both Moscow and Kyiv f
- [Five Milan local police officers arrested for illegal arrest, embezzlement and forgery](https://pollar.news/en/event/five-milan-officers-arrested): A commissaria and four agents of Milan's local police were arrested at dawn on August 6 and taken to San Vittore prison, accused of staging 
- [Ceuta migrant crisis deepens as political standoff blocks minor redistribution and social media calls for new crossing](https://pollar.news/en/event/ceuta-migration-crisis-escalates): Tens of thousands crossed from Morocco to Ceuta on 30 July, leaving at least 83 dead and nearly 1,100 minors in need of shelter as PP-Vox re
- [Mohamed Salah signs two-year Trabzonspor deal worth €17m per season after Liverpool exit](https://pollar.news/en/event/salah-to-trabzonspor): Mohamed Salah has signed a two-year contract with Turkish club Trabzonspor on a free transfer, earning €17 million per season plus a 20% sha
- [Progressive El-Sayed edges Stevens in Michigan Senate primary, setting up November showdown with Rogers](https://pollar.news/en/event/el-sayed-defies-aipac-spending): Progressive doctor Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated establishment-backed Haley Stevens in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, fending off 
- [Ireland's tax take up 6% to €59.6bn as first 15% global minimum tax payments boost July receipts](https://pollar.news/en/event/irish-tax-take-up-6-on-new-minimum-rate): Ireland collected €59.6bn in tax in the first seven months of 2026, up nearly 6% excluding last year's once-off Apple proceeds, as the first
- [Woman charged after four men stabbed with scissors in Covent Garden](https://pollar.news/en/event/covent-garden-scissors-attack): Stella Gollovena, 47, was charged with four counts of wounding with intent after four men were stabbed in the back on Endell Street in Londo
- [Russia condemns France's expulsion of pro-Kremlin journalist Xenia Fedorova as 'political persecution'](https://pollar.news/en/event/russia-slams-france-over-fedorova-expulsion): Russia on August 6 condemned France's expulsion of pro-Kremlin journalist Xenia Fedorova as 'political persecution,' escalating a dispute ov
- [South Korea releases before-and-after Moon images after SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impact](https://pollar.news/en/event/spacex-rocket-heading-for-moon-impact): A SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon on 5 August 2026 at about 8,700 km/h, and South Korea's Danuri orbiter has released the first 
- [Senate panel votes 8-7 to hold Fauci in contempt after he invoked Fifth Amendment over 100 times](https://pollar.news/en/event/senate-panel-holds-fauci-in-contempt): A US Senate committee voted 8-7 along party lines to hold former top health official Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked 
- [RWE exits US offshore wind in $1.22 billion Trump administration settlement, redirects funds to gas](https://pollar.news/en/event/rwe-quits-us-wind-for-gas-deal): German energy giant RWE agreed to surrender all three of its US offshore wind leases for a $1.22 billion Interior Department settlement, red
- [Rhine at record low chokes German freight as Bilger lifts Sunday truck ban](https://pollar.news/en/event/europes-rivers-run-dry): The Rhine gauge at Kaub fell to 17 centimetres on Wednesday, the lowest since measurements began in 1880, crippling cargo traffic on Germany
- [Barcelona cancels pre-season friendly in Tangier over Ceuta migration crisis](https://pollar.news/en/event/barcelona-cancels-morocco-friendly): FC Barcelona cancelled a pre-season friendly scheduled for 15 August in Tangier, Morocco, citing the migration crisis in the nearby Spanish 
- [Cambridge's youngest Black professor Jason Arday resigns amid plagiarism investigation](https://pollar.news/en/event/cambridge-professor-arday-resigns): Professor Jason Arday, who became Cambridge's youngest Black professor in 2023 at age 37, resigned on 5 August evening after the university 
- [NABU cruise ranking 2026: half of large cruise ships still burn heavy fuel oil as industry stays on fossil course](https://pollar.news/en/event/nabu-cruise-ranking-fossil-fuel-persists): NABU's 2026 cruise ranking, presented in Hamburg on 6 August, found half of all large cruise ships still run on heavy fuel oil. Norwegian li
- [Houthi drone and missile attacks kill at least 38 Yemeni government troops in Marib and Hadramaut](https://pollar.news/en/event/houthis-kill-38-yemeni-troops): Houthi drone and missile strikes on military camps in Marib and Hadramaut on August 6 killed at least 38 government troops and wounded 29, t
- [US expands social media screening of visa applicants to include foreign journalists](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-vets-journalists-social-media): The State Department is expanding social media vetting of visa applicants to include foreign journalists and certain Canadian and Mexican wo
- [Israel charges settler Yinon Levi with manslaughter of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen](https://pollar.news/en/event/settler-charged-in-activist-killing): Israeli prosecutors indicted settler Yinon Levi on Thursday for the July 2025 killing of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen in the West Ba
- [Hantavirus Andes strain detected in Franco-Argentine tourist isolated in Spain after France transit](https://pollar.news/en/event/hantavirus-case-isolated-in-spain): A Franco-Argentine tourist who transited through France in July tested positive for the Andes hantavirus variant and has been isolated with 
- [Vinicius Jr extends Real Madrid contract to 2032 amid Arsenal interest](https://pollar.news/en/event/vinicius-extends-madrid-deal-to-2032): Real Madrid announced a six-season contract extension for Brazilian forward Vinicius Jr on 6 August, ending 18 months of talks and fending o
- [Trump signs executive order imposing 15% tariffs on polysilicon imports](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-imposes-polysilicon-tariffs): President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday imposing 15% tariffs on imported polysilicon derivatives and establishing a pri
- [Two Iranian women's footballers granted Australian citizenship after anthem protest at Asian Cup](https://pollar.news/en/event/iranian-footballers-get-citizenship): Two Iranian women's footballers who refused to sing their national anthem at the Women's Asian Cup in March were naturalised in Brisbane on 
- [Senator Mitch McConnell discharged from rehab center after 53-day absence, will recover at home](https://pollar.news/en/event/mcconnell-leaves-rehab-center): Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, 84, said on August 6 he was discharged from a rehabilitation center and will continue recovering at home
- [Taiwan troops rehearse sealing off Danjiang Bridge in Han Kuang war games against Chinese invasion scenario](https://pollar.news/en/event/taiwan-drills-bridge-defense): Taiwanese troops practiced sealing off the Danjiang Bridge near Taipei overnight as the annual 10-day Han Kuang exercises entered their seco
- [US Senate committee declares Fauci in contempt of Congress after 100+ Fifth Amendment pleas](https://pollar.news/en/event/senate-panel-cites-fauci): A US Senate committee voted 8-7 along party lines on 6 August 2026 to declare Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked the Fif
- [Armed drone with explosives found at Leipzig airport near Ukrainian Antonov cargo plane](https://pollar.news/en/event/leipzig-airport-shut-overnight): German federal prosecutors have taken over the investigation after a drone carrying military explosives was found on the tarmac of Leipzig/H
- [Paris prosecutor opens probe into Russian interference targeting French presidential candidates](https://pollar.news/en/event/russian-deepfake-targets-glucksmann): Paris prosecutors are investigating suspected GRU-linked disinformation against Raphaël Glucksmann, one of three presidential candidates tar
- [Munich court hands life sentence to Afghan man for 2025 car-ramming at union rally that killed mother and daughter](https://pollar.news/en/event/munich-car-attacker-gets-life): A German court sentenced 25-year-old Afghan Farhad N. to life in prison for driving a car into a Munich trade union rally in February 2025, 
- [Rights groups accuse Israel of war crimes in killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil](https://pollar.news/en/event/ngos-accuse-israel-of-war-crimes): Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and The Legal Agenda published separate investigations on August 6 concluding that an Israeli atta
- [Greece seeks EU escape clause extension for over €1 billion in energy resilience investments](https://pollar.news/en/event/greece-seeks-eu-energy-clause): Greece's Finance Minister Pierrakakis asked the European Commission to extend the National Escape Clause to energy, unlocking fiscal space f

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