# 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.

- [FIFA abandons $4.2 billion World Cup stake sale after UEFA boycott threat and global backlash](https://pollar.news/en/event/uefa-threatens-world-cup-boycott): President Gianni Infantino said the proposal to sell a minority stake in a new commercial entity will not proceed after fierce opposition fr
- [Italy suspends Schengen with Spain after 60,000 migrants enter Ceuta; at least 34 dead](https://pollar.news/en/event/ceuta-migration-crisis-escalates): The mass entry of some 60,000 people into the Spanish enclave on Thursday, a figure equivalent to 70 per cent of its population, killed at l
- [Three bodies recovered, seven still missing after Broad Peak avalanche; renowned climber Nirmal Purja among disappeared](https://pollar.news/en/event/purja-missing-in-avalanche): An avalanche struck an international expedition on Pakistan's Broad Peak on Thursday, killing at least three climbers and leaving seven othe
- [Magnitude 4.7 earthquake hits Naples' Campi Flegrei, strongest in 40 years, leaves 21 injured](https://pollar.news/en/event/47-earthquake-strikes-naples): The earthquake, centered on the volcanic Campi Flegrei area at 7:46 p.m., toppled a high-voltage pylon and damaged buildings, leaving at lea
- [Franco Baresi, AC Milan legend and Italy 1982 World Cup winner, dies at 66](https://pollar.news/en/event/milan-denies-baresi-death-rumors): Franco Baresi, the former AC Milan and Italy defender who spent his entire career with the Rossoneri and won the 1982 World Cup, died on 31 
- [Gironde megafire becomes France's largest since 1949 as 42,000 hectares burn and 198,000 evacuees return](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-wildfire-evacuates-12000): After 11 days, the fire west of Bordeaux has consumed 42,000 hectares of forest, forced 250,000 people to evacuate, and drawn in aircraft an
- [Peru's ex-president Ollanta Humala walks free after court annuls Odebrecht conviction](https://pollar.news/en/event/humala-released-from-prison): Ollanta Humala, Peru's president from 2011 to 2016, left the Barbadillo prison in Lima on Friday evening after the Constitutional Court null
- [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
- [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 
- [Poland under highest-level heat and thunderstorm warnings as temperatures set to hit 34°C on Saturday and climb to 38°C next week](https://pollar.news/en/event/poland-under-red-heat-alerts): IMGW issues highest-level warnings for much of the country as temperatures are forecast to reach 37°C on Saturday and approach 40°C later ne
- [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
- [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
- [Trump says Israel 'very happy' with Hamas disarmament deal, but hurdles remain as Netanyahu aims for 70% Gaza control](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-claims-disarmament-deal): Hamas agreed to a US-brokered roadmap to give up its weapons, but Israel insists on full demilitarisation first, and the police handover is 
- [Over 50,000 migrants pour into Spain's Ceuta enclave, as Morocco border pressure kills 41 and Madrid deploys army](https://pollar.news/en/event/army-deployed-to-ceuta): Spanish forces reinforced the North African enclave of Ceuta after an estimated 50,000 people crossed from Morocco in a matter of days, with
- [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 
- [Var wildfire reignites three days after containment, scorches 1,000 hectares in six hours and forces 2,500 to flee](https://pollar.news/en/event/var-fire-re-ignites): After being fixed on 28 July, the Gros Bessillon fire in southern France erupted again on 31 July, pushed by mistral winds and 40°C heat, fo
- [Spain wildfires burn 88,000 hectares, force 115,000 evacuations as firefighting pilots run out of flying hours](https://pollar.news/en/event/spain-wildfire-spending-lags-behind-crisis): In the worst wildfire outbreak on record, more than 115,000 people were ordered to evacuate across several Spanish regions in the past week,
- [US drops case against ex-Olympian over Reflecting Pool damage, blames contractor installation](https://pollar.news/en/event/doj-drops-reflecting-pool-case): Federal prosecutors admitted Friday that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's liner was damaged by a rushed, flawed installation, not by f
- [Spain deploys army in Ceuta as 60,000 migrants enter enclave in 24 hours, leaving at least 34 dead](https://pollar.news/en/event/ceuta-migrant-surge-kills-34): Tens of thousands crossed from Morocco into the Spanish exclave by land and sea between Thursday and Friday, overwhelming a city of 84,000. 
- [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
- [Italy opens European Aquatics Championships with mixed team diving gold, silver in artistic swimming](https://pollar.news/en/event/italy-gold-in-paris-opener): Chiara Pellacani, Matteo Santoro, Sarah Jodoin Di Maria and 17-year-old debutant Raffaele Pelligra claimed the first title of the 2026 Europ
- [Berlin Pride attacker was known jihadist free after release; authorities face scrutiny as bollards installed and vigil planned](https://pollar.news/en/event/hamburg-pride-after-berlin-attack): Abdul Rahman Toufiq Ballout, 21, a known jihadist released from detention two months ago, rammed a van into Pride revelers in Berlin's Tierg
- [Trump admits $1.8bn 'anti-weaponisation' fund is dead but wishes it weren't, as Blanche AG nomination stalls over GOP demands](https://pollar.news/en/event/cornyn-blocks-blanche-vote): At a Camp David cabinet meeting, President Trump said the $1.8 billion compensation fund for his allies was 'dead' but added he wished it we
- [Russia strikes Kyiv with ballistic missiles, killing at least 3 and trapping residents in damaged buildings](https://pollar.news/en/event/russia-missile-strike-hits-kyiv): A barrage of ballistic missiles and drones struck Kyiv early Saturday, killing at least three people, wounding 15 others, and causing fires 
- [Poland expands e-registration to nine new specialists, recovers one million wasted appointments](https://pollar.news/en/event/e-registration-expands-to-nine-new-specialists): From 1 August 2026, patients can book first-time visits to nine additional specialists via the Internetowe Konto Pacjenta (IKP) and the moje
- [Spain counts down to August 12 total solar eclipse: best viewing spots, weather fears, and scientific missions](https://pollar.news/en/event/century-long-eclipse-drought-ends-in-spain): On August 12, a narrow band from Galicia to the Balearic Islands will plunge into darkness as the Moon completely blocks the Sun just before
- [Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv kills nine, wounds up to 28; Trump hesitates on Patriot production license](https://pollar.news/en/event/kyiv-missile-attack-kills-nine): A Russian ballistic missile salvo struck Kyiv overnight, killing at least nine people and wounding up to 28 across five districts, as US Pre
- [CBS places Tony Romo on indefinite leave after OWI arrest, JJ Watt steps into lead analyst role](https://pollar.news/en/event/romo-on-leave-after-arrest): The former Cowboys quarterback was arrested July 23 in Milwaukee after performing poorly on field sobriety tests; an open alcohol container 
- [Infantino's 15-billion-pound World Cup share sale plan collapses under UEFA boycott threat](https://pollar.news/en/event/infantinos-fifa-plan-collapses): FIFA President Gianni Infantino abandoned his plan to sell shares in a new World Cup subsidiary early Saturday, after all 55 European federa
- [AI hedge fund Situational Awareness forced to sell $16 billion portfolio to Citadel after chip bets backfire](https://pollar.news/en/event/ai-hedge-fund-collapses): The fund run by 24-year-old Leopold Aschenbrenner was hit by July's semiconductor sell-off and margin calls, leading to an overnight auction
- [UK High Court dismisses challenge to Chinese super-embassy near Tower of London](https://pollar.news/en/event/chinese-embassy-plan-survives-court-challenge): Two judges ruled on Friday that the government acted lawfully in granting planning permission in January, shortly before ex-Prime Minister K
- [Nine killed as Russian ballistic missiles slam into Kyiv; earlier air assault kills 8, missile falls in Poland](https://pollar.news/en/event/kyiv-attack-kills-nine): At least nine people killed and up to 28 injured in Saturday morning strike on the Ukrainian capital; follows a massive missile-and-drone as
- [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
- [Rhine and Danube hit record lows, crippling European trade and power output](https://pollar.news/en/event/europes-rivers-run-dry): Water levels on the Rhine fell to or below historic marks at multiple gauges on Friday, while the Danube's drop forced nuclear and hydropowe
- [Thousands rally in central Kyiv demanding Zelenskiy reinstate ousted defence minister Fedorov](https://pollar.news/en/event/kyiv-demands-fedorovs-return): Several thousand Ukrainians marched through central Kyiv on Friday in the third week of protests against President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's poo
- [Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv overnight, at least 4 dead and 15 injured; five-story building with people trapped](https://pollar.news/en/event/kyiv-attack-kills-four): Overnight barrage of more than ten explosions damages residential and commercial buildings and sets cars ablaze; follows Thursday's nationwi
- [Drought grips half of England and all of Wales; Suffolk wildfire forces evacuations as MP calls for disposable BBQ ban](https://pollar.news/en/event/england-drought-deepens): Half of England and all of Wales are in drought, with a major incident declared in Suffolk as a wildfire the size of 200 football pitches bu
- [Primoz Roglic struck by car during training, withdraws from San Sebastián and Burgos, Vuelta a España start in doubt](https://pollar.news/en/event/roglic-crash-threatens-vuelta-bid): The four-time Vuelta a España winner revealed a large hematoma on his right thigh after being hit by a car during training, forcing his with
- [39-year-old drove BMW onto pavement, killed boy, 9, while on drugs and defying a court ban in Kuźnica Stara](https://pollar.news/en/event/drug-driver-kills-boy-9): Jakub Sz., 39, lost control of a BMW on a bend in Kuźnica Stara, southern Poland, struck a nine-year-old cyclist on the pavement, and crashe
- [India's 'Cockroach' movement forces minister out but faces new legal hurdles after July 20 crackdown](https://pollar.news/en/event/court-rejects-activists-release-bid): After forcing India's education minister to resign, the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party warns that government promises to drop cases are und
- [Three Fed dissenters push for rate hike as bond market selloff casts doubt on inflation fight](https://pollar.news/en/event/fed-holds-three-dissent): The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged for a fifth straight meeting as three voting members broke ranks to demand immediate tight
- [Campi Flegrei earthquake swarm: 21 injured, 22 families evacuated after strongest quake in 40 years](https://pollar.news/en/event/quake-swarm-hits-naples-area): A magnitude 4.7 earthquake, the most powerful in the Campi Flegrei volcanic area in four decades, struck at 19:46 on 31 July 2026, triggerin
- [Spanish lottery results for 31 July 2026: Bonoloto, Euromillones, Cuponazo, Grossa, Eurojackpot](https://pollar.news/en/event/lottery-results-july-31): The draws for Bonoloto, Euromillones, Cuponazo de la ONCE, La Grossa and Eurojackpot on Friday 31 July 2026 have been held, with prizes incl
- [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
- [Trump blames Minnesota and Governor Walz for cyberattacks on state's water systems, not Iran](https://pollar.news/en/event/minnesota-water-systems-hacked): Speaking at Camp David on Friday, President Trump claimed without evidence that Minnesota's government and Democratic Governor Tim Walz were
- [Warsaw marks 82nd Uprising anniversary with mass; Nawrocki tells insurgents 'Warsaw, you have won'](https://pollar.news/en/event/warsaw-uprising-honored): On July 31, 2026, at Plac Krasińskich, President Karol Nawrocki, Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski and top officials attended a mass and Apel Pamięci 
- [Russian ballistic missiles hit Kiev overnight, killing 9 and wounding at least 23; Moscow says it struck military industry sites](https://pollar.news/en/event/nine-dead-in-kiev-strike): Explosions rocked multiple districts of the Ukrainian capital during the night of 31 July to 1 August, with ballistic missiles and drones ca
- [Slovakia refuses to recognise same-sex marriages performed abroad, defying EU court ruling](https://pollar.news/en/event/slovakia-defies-eu-on-same-sex-unions): Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok announced on Friday that the Slovak constitution, which defines marriage as a union between a man and a 
- [A dead Falcon 9 stage is heading for the Moon at seven times the speed of sound: what to expect on Wednesday](https://pollar.news/en/event/spacex-rocket-heading-for-moon-impact): The upper stage of a Falcon 9, adrift since launching two lunar landers in January 2025, will slam into the Moon near Einstein crater on 5 A
- [Russia kills 9 in Kyiv ballistic missile attack, second major strike in 48 hours](https://pollar.news/en/event/nine-killed-in-kyiv-strike): Ballistic missiles struck residential areas of the Ukrainian capital early Saturday, killing at least nine people and wounding 28, including

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