# 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
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- [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.

- [Apollo trumps Castlelake with £7.15 per share easyJet bid, board switches recommendation](https://pollar.news/en/event/apollo-outbids-castlelake-for-easyjet): The US fund offered £7.15 per share, topping Castlelake's £6.90 bid agreed only days earlier, and the easyJet board said it would now recomm
- [SK Hynix raises $26.5 billion in largest-ever US listing by a foreign company, pricing ADRs at $149 each](https://pollar.news/en/event/sk-hynix-raises-record-265bn): South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its Wall Street debut, pricing 177.9 million American Depositary Shares at $149 each
- [Typhoon Bavi kills five in Philippines landslide, forces Taiwan evacuations and market shutdown](https://pollar.news/en/event/typhoon-bavi-hits-taiwan): The storm, described as the largest to threaten the island since 1995, triggered a fatal landslide in the Philippines and prompted Taiwan to
- [NBP projects Polish inflation falling to 2.2% by 2028, GDP growth at 3.7% this year](https://pollar.news/en/event/nbp-22-inflation-by-2028): Poland's central bank released its July projection on Friday, showing CPI declining from 2.9% at end-2026 to 2.2% by end-2028, while GDP exp
- [Israel warns US of new Iranian assassination plot against Trump; president says he is 'number one on the list'](https://pollar.news/en/event/new-iran-plot-against-trump): Israel has shared intelligence with Washington indicating a recently developed Iranian plan to assassinate President Donald Trump, according
- [Mbappe scores 8th of tournament as France beats Morocco 2:0 to reach World Cup semi-final](https://pollar.news/en/event/mbappe-fires-france-into-semis): Kylian Mbappe struck his eighth goal of the 2026 World Cup and Ousmane Dembele added a second as France dominated Morocco 2:0 in Foxborough,
- [Ryanair window shatters after Thessaloniki takeoff; passenger partially sucked out and hospitalised](https://pollar.news/en/event/ryanair-window-breaks-mid-flight): A Friday morning Ryanair flight from Thessaloniki to Germany returned to the airport minutes after takeoff when a passenger window fractured
- [Belgium looks to upset unbeaten Spain in World Cup quarter-final as Garcia promises attacking intent](https://pollar.news/en/event/belgium-challenges-unbeaten-spain): Belgium face a daunting task against a Spain side that has yet to concede a goal at the 2026 World Cup, in a quarter-final clash in Los Ange
- [Mbappé and Dembélé fire France past Morocco into World Cup semifinals](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-into-semifinals-2): Kylian Mbappé redeemed a first-half penalty miss with a second-half goal as France defeated Morocco 2-0 in Boston to book a place in the 202
- [Palm Beach airport renamed after Trump, first US terminal to honor a sitting president](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-airport-renaming-takes-effect): The airport serving Palm Beach, Florida, was officially renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport on Thursday, becoming the fi
- [Trump clears out independent US Election Assistance Commission, leaving zero commissioners ahead of November midterms](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-fires-election-commissioners): The president terminated all remaining commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, leaving the bipartisan federal body 
- [Teenager crushed to death by truck during celebrations of France's 2-0 World Cup win over Morocco](https://pollar.news/en/event/teen-dies-celebrating-france-win): A 17-year-old girl was crushed to death after falling from a truck during celebrations in Aulnoye-Aymeries, northern France, following the n
- [Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds deliver a masterclass in communion as NOS Alive 2026 opens in Algés](https://pollar.news/en/event/cave-and-pilots-open-alive): The 18th edition of NOS Alive opened on 9 July 2026 with contrasting headline sets from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Twenty One Pilots, plu
- [Israeli intelligence warns of new Iranian plot to assassinate Trump, WSJ reports](https://pollar.news/en/event/assassination-plot-against-trump): The Wall Street Journal reports that Israel passed intelligence to the US indicating Iran is planning to directly target President Donald Tr
- [Bayeux Tapestry reaches London under police escort for sell-out British Museum show, its first UK visit in nearly 1,000 years](https://pollar.news/en/event/bayeux-tapestry-crosses-channel): A 560-kilometre police-escorted night-time operation brought the 70-metre 11th-century embroidery from Bayeux to London, where it will go on
- [Syria arrests cell behind Damascus bombings that killed one during Macron visit](https://pollar.news/en/event/damascus-bomb-cell-arrested): Syrian authorities have detained the group responsible for two explosions near the Four Seasons hotel, where French President Emmanuel Macro
- [Spain enters Belgian quarter-final with a 609-minute defensive wall, facing the World Cup's third-best attack](https://pollar.news/en/event/spain-vs-belgium-quarterfinal): La Roja face a nostalgic quarter-final clash in Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium, where their flawless defensive record meets the tournament's thir
- [VW CEO Blume's restructuring plan stalls as works council issues ultimatum and minister slams uncertainty](https://pollar.news/en/event/vw-board-weighs-plant-closures): Volkswagen's supervisory board ended a tense meeting without approving job cuts or plant closures, as CEO Oliver Blume's 'Zielbild 2030' res
- [Luigia Fortunato, 33, stabbed to death in Loreto; ex-partner arrested after confessing to neighbours](https://pollar.news/en/event/loreto-femicide-ex-partner-arrested): A 35-year-old man was taken into custody after allegedly stabbing his former partner, Luigia Fortunato, to death in her apartment in Loreto,
- [Mbappé wonder goal sends France into third straight World Cup semifinal after penalty drama](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-into-semis): Kylian Mbappé atoned for a missed penalty with a spectacular goal, and Ousmane Dembélé added a second, as France defeated Morocco 2-0 to rea
- [Androulakis confronts Mitsotakis in parliament over cost-of-living crisis, calling it a 'silent tax' on citizens](https://pollar.news/en/event/greek-parliament-cost-of-living-clash): PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis challenged Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the Hellenic Parliament on 10 July 2026, demanding eff
- [US strikes Iran, Bushehr nuclear facility hit; Israel warns of third attack as Khamenei is buried](https://pollar.news/en/event/bushehr-struck-israel-warns): After two days of American airstrikes and Iranian missile attacks on Gulf bases, a precarious calm settled over the region on Friday as dipl
- [Australia confirms first deadly H5N1 bird flu case in a native seabird as total detections climb to 12](https://pollar.news/en/event/h5n1-hits-australian-seabirds): The first case of H5N1 bird flu in a native Australian seabird has been confirmed in South Australia, adding to a dozen detections since the
- [OpenAI's No. 2 executive Fidji Simo steps down to focus on recovery from chronic illness](https://pollar.news/en/event/openai-exec-steps-down): Fidji Simo, OpenAI's head of product and business, is transitioning to a part-time advisor role after a three-month medical leave proved lon
- [Doctors demand Bundesrat block health insurance savings package as Bundestag prepares to vote](https://pollar.news/en/event/doctors-urge-reform-block): As the Bundestag prepares to vote on a controversial health insurance savings package, the German general practitioners association calls on
- [Socialist Party picks closed primary, burying Faure's left unity project for 2027 presidential race](https://pollar.news/en/event/socialists-pick-restricted-primary): Socialist Party members voted 55.5% to hold a closed primary in October, rejecting First Secretary Olivier Faure's open-primary proposal and
- [Xi Jinping demands accountability after shoe factory fire kills 28 in China](https://pollar.news/en/event/china-factory-fire-kills-28): At least 28 people died when a fire tore through the Huiteng Shoes factory in Jinjiang, a global hub for sneaker production. President Xi Ji
- [Met Police launch criminal investigation into £500,000 of Reform UK donations from fraudster’s mother](https://pollar.news/en/event/police-probe-reform-donations): Metropolitan Police detectives are investigating £500,000 in donations made to Reform UK by Fiona Cottrell, mother of convicted fraudster Ge
- [SYRIZA president Sokratis Famellos resigns, party splits into two camps ahead of Central Committee showdown](https://pollar.news/en/event/syriza-leader-resigns): Sokratis Famellos stepped down as president of Greece's main opposition party on Thursday evening, preempting a no-confidence vote and trigg
- [Athens court convicts two police officers of raping 19-year-old in Omonia station, rejecting prosecutor's acquittal call](https://pollar.news/en/event/officers-guilty-in-station-rape): The Mixed Jury Court of Athens found two policemen guilty of jointly raping a 19-year-old woman inside the Omonia police station in October 
- [Spahn proposes stripping Thuringia AfD leader Höcke of voting rights instead of party ban](https://pollar.news/en/event/spahn-targets-hoeckes-voting-rights): CDU parliamentary group leader Jens Spahn suggested a targeted legal procedure to revoke the active and passive voting rights of Thuringia's
- [Gauff falls to Muchova in Wimbledon semifinal thriller, setting up all-Czech final](https://pollar.news/en/event/all-czech-wimbledon-final): Coco Gauff's bid for a first Wimbledon final ended in heartbreak as Karolina Muchova saved a match point to win 6-2, 1-6, 7-6(12-10) on Thur
- [Márquez pursues record-tying Sachsenring win as MotoGP championship fight tightens before summer break](https://pollar.news/en/event/mrquez-eyes-sachsenring-glory): MotoGP arrives at Sachsenring for the German Grand Prix, the 11th round and last before the summer break. Marc Márquez, fifth in the standin
- [First new Romanian warship in 36 years reaches the Black Sea with interim defence minister on board](https://pollar.news/en/event/new-romanian-corvette-arrives): Radu Miruță returned from the NATO summit in Ankara aboard the latest addition to Romania's fleet, calling the 14-hour trip a lesson in 'tru
- [Mbappé atones for penalty miss with goal and assist as France beat Morocco 2-0 to reach World Cup semifinals](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-morocco-quarter-final): Kylian Mbappé scored and set up Ousmane Dembélé after missing a first-half penalty as France defeated Morocco 2-0 in Foxborough to reach a t
- [France beats Morocco 2-0, police in Brussels and Dutch cities brace for unrest after quarterfinal](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-morocco-match-sparks-unrest): France advanced to the World Cup semifinals with a 2-0 win over Morocco, but the quarterfinal triggered a heavy police response in Brussels 
- [Volkswagen plans to slash models by 50% and cap output at 9 million vehicles, sparking union clash](https://pollar.news/en/event/vw-slashes-models-capacity): The Volkswagen Group announced a sweeping restructuring on July 9, cutting its vehicle lineup by half and reducing production capacity to 9 
- [Mbappé scores, assists, then exits with ankle knock as France beats Morocco 2-0 to reach World Cup semi-finals](https://pollar.news/en/event/mbappe-fires-france-through-2): Kylian Mbappé scored his eighth goal of the tournament and set up Ousmane Dembélé as France defeated Morocco 2-0 in Boston to book a place i
- [Wally Funk, aviation pioneer and oldest woman to go into space, dies at 87](https://pollar.news/en/event/wally-funk-dies-at-87): The trailblazing aviator who waited six decades to reach space died Wednesday in Grapevine, Texas, at age 87.
- [Iran buries Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as US strikes resume and son stays absent](https://pollar.news/en/event/khamenei-buried-son-missing): Iran laid former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to rest at the Imam Reza shrine on Thursday, capping six days of funeral rites overshadowed by 
- [France's climate watchdog says current policies are inadequate as third 2026 heatwave strains hospitals and sparks wildfires](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-climate-efforts-fall-short): The High Council for Climate called for a rapid expansion of adaptation and emissions-reduction policies after mainland France warmed 2.2°C 
- [AKTOR agrees to buy 50% of Motor Oil's FSRU Dioriga Gas, adding 4.3 bcm annual LNG capacity to Greece's energy system](https://pollar.news/en/event/aktor-buys-into-lng-terminal): AKTOR Group has signed a preliminary deal to acquire a 50% stake in Motor Oil's Dioriga Gas, the developer of a new floating LNG terminal at
- [Mbappé and Dembélé fire France past Morocco into World Cup semifinals](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-into-semifinals): Kylian Mbappé atoned for a first-half penalty miss with a stunning second-half goal as France defeated Morocco 2-0 in Boston to book a third
- [New Democracy holds 13-point lead over Tsipras's ELAS, but gap narrows as 46% of Greeks want elections in 2026](https://pollar.news/en/event/greek-poll-nd-ahead-elas-gains): A Pulse poll for SKAI shows ruling New Democracy at 30% in vote estimate, 13 points ahead of Alexis Tsipras's Greek Left Coalition (ELAS), w
- [Forest fire in Estepona forces evacuation of 1,000 residents and cuts AP-7 motorway](https://pollar.news/en/event/1000-evacuated-in-costa-del-sol-fire): A forest fire that started near Estepona on Thursday afternoon led to the preventive evacuation of around 1,000 people, cut the AP-7 motorwa
- [Spain's Guardia Civil implicates Pedro Sánchez's former chief of staff in PSOE corruption probe](https://pollar.news/en/event/snchez-aide-in-corruption-probe): A Guardia Civil report alleges Juanma Serrano, once Pedro Sánchez's closest aide, helped place a party operative in the state postal service
- [Anthony Hopkins signs record deal at 88, to release debut album of original compositions in August](https://pollar.news/en/event/hopkins-signs-debut-album-deal): Oscar-winning actor Anthony Hopkins has signed with Decca Classics and will release his first album of original compositions, "Life Is a Dre
- [Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1, a paid AI coding model, as it races to catch OpenAI and Anthropic](https://pollar.news/en/event/meta-launches-muse-spark-11): Meta on Thursday released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed for coding and agentic tasks, marking the company's first paid API 
- [French deputies adopt police self-defense presumption as petition against it tops 500,000](https://pollar.news/en/event/french-police-bill-adopted-petition-surges): The National Assembly passed a bill granting a presumption of lawful firearm use to police, while a citizen petition against it has gathered
- [Former Dutch health minister Hugo de Jonge to testify before Covid inquiry on final day before summer recess](https://pollar.news/en/event/hugo-de-jonge-testifies-friday): The parliamentary inquiry into the Dutch Covid-19 response will hear from its central figure on Friday, as former health minister Hugo de Jo

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