# 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. - [Italy suspends Schengen with Spain as Ceuta crisis death toll rises to 67](https://pollar.news/en/event/ceuta-migration-crisis-escalates): Rome introduces selective checks on flights from Spain as Madrid reports 67 deaths and installs a sea barrier, while almost all the migrants - [FIFA scraps $4.2 billion World Cup stake sale after UEFA boycott threat and global backlash](https://pollar.news/en/event/uefa-threatens-world-cup-boycott): FIFA president Gianni Infantino withdrew the proposal on Friday after UEFA's member associations voted unanimously to boycott all FIFA tourn - [Russian ballistic missile barrage kills 10 in Kyiv, damages Lithuanian embassy; Ukraine intercepted only one of 27 Iskanders](https://pollar.news/en/event/kyiv-attack-kills-four): Overnight strikes on 1 August hit seven districts of the Ukrainian capital with 35 missiles and 185 drones, killing at least 10 people and w - [Nirmal Purja and nine other climbers die in Broad Peak avalanche in Pakistan](https://pollar.news/en/event/purja-missing-in-avalanche): The bodies of all 10 members of an international expedition led by Nirmal Purja were found after an avalanche struck the 8,047-metre Broad P - [Pozzuoli declares three streets unsafe as 250 flee after magnitude 4.7 earthquake near Naples, the strongest in four decades](https://pollar.news/en/event/47-earthquake-strikes-naples): A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck the Campi Flegrei near Naples on Friday evening, the strongest in four decades. Three streets in Pozzuoli - [Trump claims Hamas disarmament deal, but Israel and Hamas swap preconditions that block the path forward](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-claims-disarmament-deal): The US president said the Board of Peace had secured a 'complete disarmament' roadmap, but a senior Hamas official conditioned it on an Isra - [Peruvian ex-President Ollanta Humala released after court overturns 15-year conviction](https://pollar.news/en/event/humala-released-from-prison): Former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala walked free from a Lima prison on Friday evening after the Constitutional Court overturned his 15-y - [Gironde mega-fire fixed, Var blaze active: France’s largest wildfire since 1949 is contained after 42,000 ha burned](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-wildfire-evacuates-12000): The massive blaze that forced 224,000 people to flee in southwestern France has stopped spreading, officials said Saturday. Meanwhile a new - [Singapore bans Massive Attack after band unfurls Palestinian flag and chants 'Free Palestine' at concert](https://pollar.news/en/event/massive-attack-banned-in-singapore): Two members unfurled a Palestinian flag and one chanted 'Free Palestine' during Wednesday's concert, prompting police to issue stern warning - [US drops Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case against ex-Olympian, admits damage was botched renovation](https://pollar.news/en/event/doj-drops-reflecting-pool-case): The US Justice Department moved to dismiss felony vandalism charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, 67, after documents showed - [Rhine sinks to historic low at Cologne, breaking 2018 drought record](https://pollar.news/en/event/europes-rivers-run-dry): A prolonged drought pushed the Rhine's level at Cologne to a new record low of between 67 and 68 centimetres early Saturday, surpassing the - [Bordeaux fire contained but new blazes engulf Greece as Europe battles wildfires](https://pollar.news/en/event/wildfires-rage-across-southern-europe): Fires in France's Var region rekindled and Greece declared red alert for Attica, while 198,000 evacuees near Bordeaux returned home. - [Romania captures four medals, including two golds and a European record, at Varese rowing Europeans](https://pollar.news/en/event/romanias-varese-medal-rush): Romanian rowers claimed two golds, a silver, and a bronze on the first day of finals at the European Championships in Varese, Italy, with Si - [Magnitude 4.7 quake at Campi Flegrei supervolcano leaves 21 injured, two seriously](https://pollar.news/en/event/naples-quake-injures-four): The strongest tremor in decades struck the Phlegraean Fields caldera on Friday evening, damaging homes and churches in Pozzuoli and cutting - [Franco Baresi dies at 66: Milan and Italy legend farewelled by football world](https://pollar.news/en/event/milan-denies-baresi-death-rumors): The former AC Milan and Italy defender, who captained one of the club's greatest sides and won the 1982 World Cup, has died at the Humanitas - [US ambassador invokes Warsaw Uprising to warn Poland's adversaries: 'Poland never surrenders'](https://pollar.news/en/event/poland-never-surrenders-envoy-says): Ambassador Tom Rose marked the 82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising with a video warning: just as Hitler and Stalin failed to subdue Pola - [Civey Poll: 38% of Germans Feel Less Safe, 51% Doubt Country's Stability After Berlin CSD Attack](https://pollar.news/en/event/hamburg-pride-after-berlin-attack): A week after an Islamist attacker drove into Berlin's Pride parade, killing one and injuring 31, a Civey poll finds 38% of Germans feel less - [US and Israel plan weekend strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure, Trump yet to give final order](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-israel-plan-iran-strikes): President Trump threatened Friday to hit Iran 'very hard,' as US and Israeli officials readied a joint bombing campaign against energy targe - [Pedro Sánchez demands EU crisis talks as 67 migrants die in Ceuta, Italy suspends Schengen for Spain](https://pollar.news/en/event/ceuta-deaths-spark-eu-crisis): The Spanish prime minister accused some EU partners of prejudice and illegality after Italy imposed border controls and nearly all arrivals - [Thunderstorms, hail, and 110 km/h winds threaten Poland as 37°C heat bakes the southeast](https://pollar.news/en/event/poland-under-red-heat-alerts): IMGW has issued thunderstorm and heat warnings for nearly all of Poland on Saturday, with wind gusts up to 110 km/h and temperatures reachin - [Ceuta migrant death toll reaches 84 as 50,000 arrivals trigger EU political clash](https://pollar.news/en/event/ceuta-death-toll-84): At least 84 migrants have drowned trying to swim to Spain's Ceuta enclave, as more than 50,000 people entered the territory in 24 hours befo - [Perugia hotel CO leak kills musician ahead of Music Fest concert, leaves colleague critical; manslaughter investigation opened](https://pollar.news/en/event/musician-dies-in-perugia-hotel-leak): The man, aged 54 or 55, was found dead in his room before a concert with the Orchestra of the Hundred Cities on Friday evening; a female col - [Fatal storm hits Saxon Switzerland: one dead, national park closed as Germany battered by severe weather](https://pollar.news/en/event/fatal-storm-hits-rathen-theater): A 28-year-old man was killed by a falling tree near the Felsenbühne open-air theatre in Rathen on Friday evening as a violent thunderstorm s - [French holiday gridlock peaks at 1,041 km of jams as black-alert Saturday grips motorways](https://pollar.news/en/event/1041-km-of-french-jams): Cumulative traffic jams across France hit 1,041.2 km at 11:50 on Saturday 1 August, the peak of a day rated black for departures nationwide - [Banco BPM halts Monte dei Paschi merger talks after Crédit Agricole objects](https://pollar.news/en/event/banco-bpm-mps-merger-scrapped): Banco BPM unanimously ended consultations with Monte dei Paschi on 31 July, after its top shareholder Crédit Agricole said it could not asse - [Spain declares Ceuta migration crisis over as nearly all migrants return to Morocco, but EU tensions flare](https://pollar.news/en/event/ceuta-crisis-abates-eu-divided): After 50,000-60,000 migrants crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Madrid says most have returned; 67 are dead and a Saturday EU crisis - [DFB calls Infantino 'irresponsible' as UEFA and European federations withdraw trust after FIFA investment plan collapses](https://pollar.news/en/event/infantino-faces-trust-crisis): The German FA demanded a 'complete investigation' and Denmark's DBU said it can no longer support Gianni Infantino, one day after the FIFA p - [French basketball champion Monaco thrown out of pro leagues over €24m debt, federation confirms on appeal](https://pollar.news/en/event/monaco-ousted-from-elite): The French Basketball Federation (FFBB) appeal body upheld the exclusion of AS Monaco from Betclic Elite and Elite 2 on Saturday 1 August, a - [Partner detained in Rome femicide after video shows him leaving terrace alone with victim's bag](https://pollar.news/en/event/rome-femicide-partner-held): Dafne Rebaudo, 30, was found dead on 13 July at the base of a housing block in Tor Bella Monaca. Surveillance footage shows her partner desc - [Poland sends 105 firefighters to Spain as part of EU wildfire pre-positioning operation](https://pollar.news/en/event/polish-firefighters-to-spain): The first of three 35-person shifts flew from Kraków to Castilla-La Mancha on 1 August to back up Spanish ground crews with hand-tool wildfi - [Arsenal reach personal terms with Vinicius Junior as Real Madrid issues contract ultimatum](https://pollar.news/en/event/vinicius-deal-breakthrough): Arsenal have agreed an outline of personal terms with Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior, who is entering the final year of his contract, a - [Italy heatwave peaks with 23 cities on red alert, hospitals strained and highways in black code](https://pollar.news/en/event/fourth-heatwave-hits-italy): Italy's fourth heatwave of the summer reaches maximum intensity this weekend, driving temperatures to 41°C in several inland cities while ov - [21 injured, 2 in critical condition after magnitude 4.7 earthquake strikes near Naples](https://pollar.news/en/event/quake-near-naples-injures-21): A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck the Campi Flegrei volcanic area west of Naples on Friday evening, injuring 21 people and leaving two in cr - [Andy Burnham opens 'No. 10 North' in Manchester and pledges the biggest transfer of power from Westminster in a generation](https://pollar.news/en/event/burnham-to-become-uk-pm): The new prime minister worked from the Manchester office for the first time on 24 July, chaired his first regional meeting there the same da - [Rafa Jódar rallies past Musetti to reach Washington semifinals and secures top-20 ATP debut](https://pollar.news/en/event/jodar-reaches-washington-semis): The 19-year-old Spaniard recovered from a lopsided first set to beat Lorenzo Musetti 1-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the ATP 500 Washi - [Tour de France Femmes 2026 starts in Lausanne with Ferrand-Prévot, Vollering and a summit finish in Nice](https://pollar.news/en/event/tour-femmes-2026-begins): The fifth edition of the women's Tour de France rolls out of Lausanne on Saturday with 147 riders facing nine stages across Switzerland and - [Modi offers forgiveness to 'misguided' youth protesters as expert report confirms pellet-gun injuries in India](https://pollar.news/en/event/court-rejects-activists-release-bid): Narendra Modi said he wanted to forgive the young protesters who shouted abuses at him and his late mother, while BBC analysis confirmed the - [Leverkusen's 17-year-old Kennet Eichhorn sidelined indefinitely by metabolic disorder](https://pollar.news/en/event/eichhorn-metabolic-disorder): The midfielder, who joined Bayer Leverkusen from Hertha BSC this summer for a reported 9 million euros, will begin inpatient treatment after - [Nicușor Dan: Romania Functions Despite Political Noise as Fitch Holds Sovereign Rating Above Junk](https://pollar.news/en/event/dan-romania-stabilising-despite-noise): President Nicușor Dan said Romania is stabilising financially after Fitch kept the country's sovereign rating one step above junk, while ack - [Alphabet pulls Earth AI image tool after 24 hours as users fabricate warzone and disaster scenes](https://pollar.news/en/event/google-earth-ai-reversed): Users generated fake aerial scenes of a nuclear facility in Iran, a bombed Moscow, and a plane crashing into a Manhattan skyscraper, all lay - [Poland to honor 1944 Warsaw Uprising on 82nd anniversary with sirens, ceremonies and tributes across the country](https://pollar.news/en/event/poland-remembers-1944-uprising): Cities across Poland will sound air-raid sirens and hold ceremonies on 1 August 2026 to mark the 82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, th - [Morawiecki’s Rozwój Plus debuts with Warsaw ‘grill’ as Polish right fractures after PiS split](https://pollar.news/en/event/kurski-silenced-after-rant): The new parliamentary club of 40 deputies and one senator, led by former prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, held a day-long conference in Wa - [Nearly 70,000 migrants return to Morocco after mass crossing into Ceuta, death toll reaches 67](https://pollar.news/en/event/migrants-return-death-toll-67): About 69,500 people have left the Spanish enclave of Ceuta for Morocco in the past 30 hours after up to 60,000 entered illegally on Thursday - [Trump backs away from pledge to let Ukraine manufacture Patriot missiles, citing technology transfer risks](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-backtracks-on-patriots): President Donald Trump said on Friday the US has "not agreed" to allow Ukraine to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, walking back a July - [Police brace for traffic chaos as AfD youth rally and six counter-protests descend on Schwerin](https://pollar.news/en/event/seven-demos-disrupt-schwerin): A planned rally by the AfD's youth wing Generation Deutschland with 500 attendees and six counter-demonstrations will disrupt traffic in cen - [Swiss women’s quadruple sculls win historic European gold on National Day](https://pollar.news/en/event/swiss-rowers-grab-historic-gold): On Swiss National Day, the women’s quadruple sculls crew of Nina Wettstein, Célia Dupré, Flavia Lötscher and Lisa Lötscher surged in the fin - [US reported to plan major strike wave on Iran as Tehran threatens retaliatory attacks on Gulf energy sites](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-iran-escalation-looms): CBS News and WSJ report that the US may launch one of its largest attack waves on Iran as early as this weekend, with infrastructure and ene - [Wildfires rage across Greece, forcing evacuations near Athens and on tourist islands as winds hit 130 km/h](https://pollar.news/en/event/athens-suburbs-evacuated): Multiple wildfires fanned by gale-force winds swept across Greece on Friday and Saturday, prompting evacuations of suburbs near Athens, a be - [Authorities examine video of black-clad suspect in deadly Rethymno wildfire probe](https://pollar.news/en/event/suspect-filmed-at-crete-fire): Greek authorities are analyzing a video that shows a man dressed in black moving suspiciously near the point where the Asomatos wildfire ign - [OpenAI and Anthropic models breached outside systems during security tests, deepening alarm over autonomous cyber attacks](https://pollar.news/en/event/ai-hack-spree-sparks-safety-plea): Anthropic revealed on 30 July that three versions of its Claude model compromised production infrastructure at three organizations during ca ## Search and discovery - [Search](https://pollar.news/en/search): full-text + semantic search across all events - [Sitemap](https://pollar.news/sitemap.xml): every public URL across the four locales - [News sitemap](https://pollar.news/sitemap-news.xml): Google News feed, last 48h of events - [Full content dump](https://pollar.news/llms-full.txt): all current event summaries + thread state-of-play in one markdown file (preferred when you want pollar context in a single fetch) ## About + policies - [What is Pollar](https://pollar.news/en/about): the service in plain terms — free, four languages, reader-funded, no ads, self-hosted cookieless analytics, every article lists its sources - 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