# 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): Models are learning faster than the institutions behind them can adapt, with this thread tracking frontier-model capability jumps, the AI Ac - [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 in Ukraine has entered a new phase defined by a rapid technological competition and a more mature Ukrainian strike doctrine, challen - [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. - [Burnham signals no immediate wealth tax as Starmer exits with tributes and Thames Water warning](https://pollar.news/en/event/burnhams-tax-stance-starmers-exit): Incoming UK prime minister Andy Burnham ruled out an immediate wealth tax but left the door open for future rises, while outgoing leader Kei - [Hungary's ex-FM Szijjártó quits parliament for BYD role he helped subsidise, PM Magyar attacks](https://pollar.news/en/event/szijjrto-joins-byd-amid-subsidy-row): Former Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó announced his resignation from parliament on Wednesday to take a senior role at Chinese EV - [One vote sinks Meloni's election reform amendment as coalition snipers strike in Rome](https://pollar.news/en/event/melonis-one-vote-defeat): A single vote in a secret ballot derailed an amendment on preference votes, exposing a rift inside Giorgia Meloni's three-party coalition th - [Italy's top court upholds 14-year sentence for jeweller Mario Roggero who killed two robbers in 2021](https://pollar.news/en/event/jewellers-murder-sentence-upheld): The Court of Cassation in Rome made final the 14-year, 9-month sentence for Mario Roggero, the 72-year-old jeweller who shot dead two fleein - [PiS bans members from factional associations: Morawiecki defies ultimatum, Sasin complies](https://pollar.news/en/event/pis-ultimatum-on-associations): On 15 July 2026 the leadership of Poland's Law and Justice party ordered all members to quit political associations within the party within - [England and Argentina renew 60-year World Cup feud in Atlanta semifinal, Spain awaits winner](https://pollar.news/en/event/messi-meets-england-at-last): The two sides meet at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Wednesday evening, the first clash since 2005, with a place against Spain in Sunday - [Stripe and Advent bid $53bn for PayPal at $60.50 a share, a 28% premium](https://pollar.news/en/event/stripe-advent-offer-53b-for-paypal): Payments processor Stripe and private equity firm Advent International offered $60.50 per share for PayPal, valuing the company above $53 bi - [Jérôme Barella indicted for murder and rape of 11-year-old Lyhanna after body found in silo](https://pollar.news/en/event/indictment-in-lyhanna-murder-case): Jérôme Barella, a 41-year-old temp worker, was placed under formal investigation on 15 July for the rape and murder of 11-year-old schoolgir - [Waerenskjold wins fastest Tour de France stage ever as peloton averages 50.91km/h on Stage 11](https://pollar.news/en/event/sprinters-day-in-tour-stage-11): Norway's Soren Waerenskjold claimed his first career Tour de France victory in a mass sprint at Nevers on Wednesday, completing the 161.3 km - [Biden announces memoir 'Promise Me, America' for 17 November release, weeks after midterms](https://pollar.news/en/event/biden-announces-presidential-memoir): The former president, who is undergoing treatment for an aggressive prostate cancer diagnosed in May 2025, says the book will cover his deci - [FIFA breaks own rules to stage star-studded World Cup final half-time show, extending interval to 25 minutes](https://pollar.news/en/event/fifas-30-minute-half-time-break): Sunday's final at MetLife Stadium will feature an 11-minute music show curated by Coldplay's Chris Martin, with performers including Shakira - [Lithuania warns Russia is planning kinetic attacks on critical infrastructure in Poland and the Baltics](https://pollar.news/en/event/russia-plans-sabotage-baltics-warn): Intelligence from multiple NATO allies points to Russian plans for selective attacks on critical energy and transport infrastructure, with V - [Merz insists coalition found its footing at summer press conference, sidesteps AfD questions and own missteps](https://pollar.news/en/event/merz-touts-coalition-footing): Facing rock-bottom approval ratings and a surging far-right AfD before three September state elections, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz use - [Man kills wife with machete in broad daylight in Kelkheim, Germany; witnesses overpower attacker](https://pollar.news/en/event/machete-attack-in-kelkheim): A 60-year-old Croatian man allegedly attacked his estranged wife with a machete on a busy street in Kelkheim, Hesse, on Tuesday evening. The - [Begoña Gómez submits London flight tickets, accuses Judge Peinado of 'impossible' proof demand over UK digital border system](https://pollar.news/en/event/gomez-fights-judges-passport-demand): The wife of Spain's prime minister presented her airline tickets to a Madrid court on 15 July 2026 while formally appealing a judicial order - [15,000 free tickets for Spain's World Cup final viewing at Madrid's Movistar Arena sold out in 90 minutes](https://pollar.news/en/event/madrid-final-viewing-sold-out): Movistar Arena will host the region's largest screen for the World Cup final on Sunday, but all 15,000 free passes were claimed within 90 mi - [Attempted burglary at Lamine Yamal's Barcelona home hours after he helped Spain reach World Cup final](https://pollar.news/en/event/yamal-home-burglary-thwarted): Two masked individuals tried to break into the Esplugues de Llobregat property of the 19-year-old Spain forward early Wednesday, but private - [Meta employees sue, allege AI tools scored parental and medical leave against them in 8,000-person layoff](https://pollar.news/en/event/meta-sued-over-ai-layoffs): A federal lawsuit filed in Oakland, California, claims the company's internal AI systems transformed keyboard activity and token usage into - [Ontario wildfires force First Nations evacuations as Toronto air quality hits world's worst](https://pollar.news/en/event/toronto-air-worlds-worst): Smoke from hundreds of wildfires in northern Ontario blanketed Toronto on Wednesday, reducing visibility and pushing air quality to the wors - [Mother and infant die, father and child injured in Halkidiki tanker crash](https://pollar.news/en/event/fatal-halkidiki-crash): A passenger car collided with a tanker on a provincial road near Polygyros on Wednesday evening. Two victims, a woman and an infant, were co - [France legalises assisted dying: National Assembly passes law with 291 votes to 241 after two-year parliamentary marathon](https://pollar.news/en/event/lecornu-to-challenge-assisted-dying-law): The French National Assembly definitively adopted the 'aide à mourir' bill on 15 July 2026 by 291 votes to 241, creating a legal right to as - [Hydrogen fluoride leak on MSC cargo ship at Antwerp's Deurganck Dock hospitalises 28, one in intensive care](https://pollar.news/en/event/antwerp-port-toxic-leak-hospitalises-28): A hydrogen fluoride leak from a container aboard the 'Mia Summer II' at the Deurganck Dock in the port of Antwerp prompted a mass evacuation - [Attal's Renaissance party sues Le Pen and National Rally for trademark infringement over campaign slogan](https://pollar.news/en/event/attal-sues-le-pen): Gabriel Attal's Renaissance party filed a lawsuit against Marine Le Pen and the National Rally on Wednesday, alleging the far-right candidat - [UK to impose default midnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds, with opt-out option](https://pollar.news/en/event/uk-teen-social-media-curfew): The British government will block 16- and 17-year-olds from social media apps between midnight and 6 a.m. by default, though the teens can c - [Italian prosecutors drop sports fraud case against former referee chief Gianluca Rocchi after two-year investigation](https://pollar.news/en/event/referee-probe-dropped): Milan public prosecutor requests dismissal of sports fraud charges against ex-referee designator Gianluca Rocchi, citing lack of evidence of - [Ukraine hits 20 Russian tankers in Black Sea, EU moves to restrict asylum for draft-age men](https://pollar.news/en/event/drones-hit-russian-tankers): Ukrainian drones struck 20 Russian tankers in the Black Sea on the night of 15 July, while the EU signalled an imminent agreement to deny si - [Feijóo brands Sánchez an 'authoritarian president' at Madrid summit, citing judicial distrust and parliamentary disregard](https://pollar.news/en/event/feijoo-labels-snchez-authoritarian): Speaking at the EPP Libertas Forum in Madrid on 15 July 2026, Spanish opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo described Pedro Sánchez as an ' - [Gibraltar border fence removed as EU-UK treaty takes effect, ending decades of physical division](https://pollar.news/en/event/gibraltar-fence-comes-down-tonight): The physical barrier separating Gibraltar from Spain was dismantled at midnight on 15 July 2026, hours after the EU, UK and Gibraltar signed - [Poland and Sweden intercept Russian Su-30SM2 jets over Baltic in second day of air incidents](https://pollar.news/en/event/russia-probes-baltic-airspace): Over two days, Polish and Swedish fighters intercepted Russian military aircraft near Poland’s maritime border, with the defence minister ca - [China's economic growth slows to 4.3% in Q2, missing forecasts as exports surge and domestic demand falters](https://pollar.news/en/event/china-growth-disappoints): The world's second-largest economy expanded at its weakest pace since late 2022, as a property slump and weak consumer confidence offset a 2 - [Markus Beierle, former Bundesliga striker with Frankfurt and 1860 Munich, dies aged 54 after a career of 123 top-flight appearances](https://pollar.news/en/event/beierle-passes-away-at-54): The striker, who netted 32 goals in 123 Bundesliga matches, played a key role in Eintracht Frankfurt's two promotions and scored a famous UE - [AfD leaders sing East German anthem at rally as comedian sparks criminal probe with Merz, Merkel remarks](https://pollar.news/en/event/afd-sings-ddr-anthem): AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla and top candidate Ulrich Siegmund joined hundreds in singing 'Auferstanden aus Ruinen' at a campaign event in D - [Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía tour the Greco-Roman ruins of Empúries on second day of Girona awards visit](https://pollar.news/en/event/leonor-and-sofia-tour-empuries): The heir to the Spanish throne and her sister walked the ancient Greek and Roman city on the Costa Brava, meeting young archaeologists and a - [German prosecutors probe comedian Uwe Steimle over Merkel hanging, Stauffenberg remarks at AfD event](https://pollar.news/en/event/steimle-investigated-after-afd-event): The Dessau-Roßlau public prosecutor's office opened an investigation against cabaret artist Uwe Steimle on Wednesday after he joked at an Af - [Spain's PSOE widens lead over PP to 7.9 points in July CIS poll despite Ábalos corruption sentencing](https://pollar.news/en/event/psoe-poll-lead-grows): The governing Socialists reached 33% estimated vote share in the July CIS barometer, fielded days after former minister José Luis Ábalos rec - [Patisia apartment fire kills elderly woman, husband hospitalised with respiratory injuries](https://pollar.news/en/event/patisia-fire-kills-elderly-woman): An elderly woman died and her husband was hospitalised with respiratory problems after a fire broke out midday on Wednesday in their first-f - [One dead and three missing after pontoon boat capsizes near Alcatraz Island during memorial service](https://pollar.news/en/event/pleasure-boat-sinks-near-alcatraz): A three-deck pontoon boat carrying 19 people capsized roughly 550 metres from Alcatraz Island on Tuesday afternoon, leaving one person dead - [US House passes Sunshine Protection Act 308-117, sends permanent daylight saving time bill to Senate](https://pollar.news/en/event/house-passes-daylight-saving-bill): The US House of Representatives voted 308-117 on Tuesday to end the twice-yearly clock change and lock in year-round daylight saving time. T - [Romania's acting PM warns 4.5 billion euros in EU funds at stake as PSD blocks PNRR reforms](https://pollar.news/en/event/bolojan-presses-psd-on-pnrr): Interim Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan published a detailed Facebook rebuttal on 15 July 2026 after Social Democratic leader Sorin Grindeanu qu - [Turkey marks decade since failed 2016 coup as Erdogan demands extraditions and launches fresh wave of arrests](https://pollar.news/en/event/erdogans-decade-since-the-coup): A new 'major cleansing campaign' saw 968 people detained across all 81 Turkish provinces this week, while President Erdogan called on NATO a - [Pilot Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, hero of the 2009 'Miracle on the Hudson', announces early-stage Alzheimer's diagnosis at 75](https://pollar.news/en/event/sully-reveals-alzheimers-diagnosis): Chesley B. 'Sully' Sullenberger III, the former US Airways pilot who saved 155 lives by landing a crippled jet on New York's Hudson River in - [T-Rex skeleton 'Gus' sells for $50.1 million at Sotheby's, smashing fossil auction record](https://pollar.news/en/event/t-rex-gus-record-501m-sale): A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton named 'Gus' sold at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday for $50.1 million, including fees, ecl - [Christopher Nolan's IMAX 'Odyssey' lands with Matt Damon, Tom Holland and a Homeric debate](https://pollar.news/en/event/nolan-fuels-homer-sales-boom): The director's first film shot entirely with IMAX cameras adapts Homer's epic with Matt Damon as a guilt-racked Odysseus and a star-packed c - [Trump's former attorney Todd Blanche grilled on loyalty and ethics as he seeks confirmation as US attorney general](https://pollar.news/en/event/blanche-retribution-emails-surface): Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, previously Donald Trump's personal lawyer, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday - [Explosive diarrhea parasite sickens thousands across US; Taco Bell under investigation, but source remains unknown](https://pollar.news/en/event/cyclospora-outbreak-spreads-in-us): More than 6,000 Americans across 40 states have been infected with cyclospora, a parasite causing explosive diarrhea. Federal health officia - [Trump overrules own agency and demands ICE continue traffic stops after two fatal shootings in a week](https://pollar.news/en/event/ice-kills-one-in-maine): The president's Truth Social post countermanded a DHS pause announced one day earlier, following the fatal shootings of a Colombian man in M - [US refunds $81bn in tariffs after Supreme Court ruled Trump's IEEPA levies illegal](https://pollar.news/en/event/81bn-tariff-refund-begins): The US Treasury has returned roughly $81.3 billion to companies since October 2025, after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs imposed unde - [Macron's final Bastille Day parade showcases European rearmament with 6,800 troops and Ukrainian soldiers on the Champs-Élysées](https://pollar.news/en/event/europes-strategic-awakening-on-display): President Emmanuel Macron presided over his tenth and final 14 July military parade on Tuesday, transforming the Champs-Élysées into a displ - [Cuba suffers third nationwide blackout in 10 days as US fuel blockade deepens energy crisis](https://pollar.news/en/event/cuba-blackout-crisis-deepens): The island's entire power grid went offline at 11:05 local time on Tuesday, the fifth nationwide collapse in 2026, leaving 9.6 million resid - [US launches new wave of strikes on Iran as IRGC threatens to paralyse Middle East energy exports](https://pollar.news/en/event/hormuz-fee-replaced-by-deals): CENTCOM began a fresh wave of attacks on Wednesday aimed at degrading Iranian military capacity used against merchant ships. 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