# 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 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.

- [Magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Kumamoto in southern Japan; tsunami advisory issued then lifted, no major damage reported](https://pollar.news/en/event/71-quake-hits-southern-japan): The quake struck at 4:27 p.m. local time near Kumamoto on Kyushu island, reaching the maximum intensity on Japan's seismic scale. A tsunami 
- [PiS split becomes formal as Morawiecki's faction prepares its own parliamentary club](https://pollar.news/en/event/kurski-silenced-after-rant): The Political Committee of Poland's Law and Justice party meets on 28 July to confirm the departure of roughly 30 MPs aligned with former pr
- [Gironde megafire holds stable as temperatures rise; Landes fire fixed, Spain battles blazes](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-wildfire-evacuates-12000): The Gironde megafire near Bordeaux remained stable overnight after burning 42,000 hectares, but rising temperatures threaten to reignite it.
- [Global chip stocks fall as China's DUV breakthrough and AI funding fears trigger selloff](https://pollar.news/en/event/asia-chip-selloff-deepens): South Korea's KOSPI fell nearly 10% and trading was briefly halted after reports that a Chinese state-backed firm began mass-producing advan
- [Spain's unemployment rate falls below 10% as employment hits record 22.78 million](https://pollar.news/en/event/spain-jobless-rate-below-10): Unemployment fell by 213,300 in the second quarter to 2.5 million, pushing the rate to 9.87%, while the number of people in work reached an 
- [Burnham welcomes Zelenskyy as first foreign visitor, pledges social care reform in opening week](https://pollar.news/en/event/burnham-to-become-uk-pm): New UK prime minister Andy Burnham hosted Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Portsmouth naval base on Monday, announcing new drone-jamming technology, w
- [CXMT shares surge 466% in Shanghai debut, handing Hefei a $148bn windfall](https://pollar.news/en/event/cxmt-shares-jump-535): The Chinese memory-chip maker briefly became China's most valuable listed company, while the city of Hefei's early investment delivered pape
- [Spain battles its largest wildfires on record: 77,000 hectares burn and 100,000 people evacuated ahead of new heat wave](https://pollar.news/en/event/12000-ha-burned-in-guadalajara): Fires in Ávila, Madrid, Toledo and Castellón have forced more than 100,000 people from their homes, with 77,000 hectares already burned and 
- [Pirlo withdraws from Italy coach race over Russian betting ties, Maldini and Leonardo quit FIGC](https://pollar.news/en/event/pirlo-new-italy-coach): Andrea Pirlo's candidacy to lead the Italian national team collapsed after scrutiny of his ambassador role with Russian bookmaker Fonbet, tr
- [Germany braces for three-day heatwave with temperatures up to 39°C](https://pollar.news/en/event/germany-heatwave-to-hit-39c): Temperatures will climb to 39°C in parts of Germany by Thursday, with the DWD warning of heat stress and thunderstorms, before cooler air ar
- [Italy enacts 17-cent diesel excise cut until 6 August, leaves gasoline unchanged](https://pollar.news/en/event/italy-weighs-fuel-tax-cut): A 17-cent-per-litre cut on diesel excise duties took effect at midnight, lasting until 6 August, while gasoline remains untouched. The gover
- [Trump hails 'good talks' with Iran as Oman floats Strait of Hormuz plan, but drone strikes test pause](https://pollar.news/en/event/opec-boosts-august-output): A third day of calm between US and Iranian forces gave way to diplomatic maneuvering on Tuesday, as Oman presented a proposal for joint mana
- [Berlin Pride attacker was known Islamist threat on probation; minister demands preventive detention](https://pollar.news/en/event/berlin-csd-well-only-get-louder): A 21-year-old German-Lebanese man with a prior terror conviction drove a van into a crowd at Berlin's CSD, then attacked with a machete, kil
- [House Democrat opens investigation into FIFA president Gianni Infantino over Trump ties](https://pollar.news/en/event/infantino-faces-congress-probe): Jamie Raskin demands documents, visitor logs, and a transcribed interview by 9 August, citing a peace prize, a Trump Tower office, and the l
- [Claude AI leak: Hundreds of private chats with health, legal data indexed by Google and Bing](https://pollar.news/en/event/private-claude-chats-exposed): Anthropic’s Claude AI failed to properly hide shared conversation URLs from search engines, causing hundreds of chats containing medical rec
- [Johnson & Johnson offers $5.5 billion to settle 76,000 talc cancer lawsuits, ending decade-long battle](https://pollar.news/en/event/jj-55bn-talc-settlement): The pharmaceutical giant aims to end a decade-long legal battle with a $5.5 billion offer that covers nearly all remaining talc claims in th
- [Rhineland-Palatinate CDU cancels Merz meeting as party fury over Schnieder sacking grows](https://pollar.news/en/event/merz-reshuffles-cabinet): The Rhineland-Palatinate CDU parliamentary group cancels a September meeting with the chancellor, citing 'lack of trust and appreciation' af
- [France and Spain battle worst wildfires in living memory as new 42°C heatwave looms](https://pollar.news/en/event/wildfires-rage-ahead-of-heatwave): Firefighters in France and Spain are racing to contain the worst wildfires in living memory, with over 330,000 people evacuated, as meteorol
- [Mercedes profit rises 13.5% but China car sales slump 30%, dragging down 2026 outlook](https://pollar.news/en/event/mercedes-china-slump-hits-outlook): Group net profit climbed to 1.09 billion euros in the second quarter, the first year-on-year gain since Q2 2023, yet a 30% drop in China pas
- [Stellantis sells Free2move car-sharing unit to Mutares, doubling down on core vehicle production](https://pollar.news/en/event/stellantis-sells-free2move-unit): The automaker will divest its entire stake in the car-sharing platform, which operates in 14 cities across Europe and the US, as part of its
- [India's Cockroach movement wins minister's resignation, now demands release of detained protesters](https://pollar.news/en/event/court-rejects-activists-release-bid): The Cockroach Janta Party says at least 100 people were arrested during protests that forced Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to resign
- [Barclays H1 profit rises 17% to £6.1bn on equities strength; bank lifts income target and buyback](https://pollar.news/en/event/barclays-profit-up-17): Equities trading revenue rose 45% in the second quarter, pushing half-year pre-tax profit to £6.1 billion, above estimates. The bank raised 
- [Singer D4vd ordered to stand trial for stabbing and dismembering 14-year-old girl in Los Angeles](https://pollar.news/en/event/d4vd-murder-trial-to-proceed): A Los Angeles judge has ordered singer D4vd to stand trial on charges of murdering and dismembering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who
- [Adam Ramsay-Peaty settles for second bronze at Commonwealth Games, admits 'human first, then athlete'](https://pollar.news/en/event/ramsay-peaty-settles-for-bronze): The three-time Olympic champion finished third in the 50m breaststroke in Glasgow, 0.44sec behind winner Sam Williamson, and spoke of a new 
- [Three women stabbed in Paris knife attack; suspect arrested by off-duty police officer](https://pollar.news/en/event/three-women-stabbed-in-paris): The attack at Porte de Clichy left two victims seriously injured, one of them pregnant according to Le Parisien. The attacker was subdued by
- [Second shooting at US consulate in Toronto this year: police chase white Honda at 140 km/h, no injuries](https://pollar.news/en/event/toronto-consulate-shot-again): A single shot struck the US consulate in downtown Toronto early Monday, the second such attack in four months. Police chased a white Honda s
- [Vall d'Uixó fire enters fourth day with 8,500 hectares burned and a narrow weather window before a new heatwave](https://pollar.news/en/event/8500-hectares-burned-in-castellon): Authorities lifted confinement in La Vall d'Uixó on Tuesday morning but kept evacuations in place for roughly 10,000 people across 15 other 
- [Spain issues heat alerts as temperatures set to hit 40°C across multiple regions](https://pollar.news/en/event/44c-heatwave-to-hit-spain): Spain's meteorological agency AEMET has issued yellow and orange warnings for extreme heat on Tuesday, with temperatures forecast to reach 4
- [Six Months After Abduction, Savannah Guthrie Pleads: 'Tell Us Where to Look'](https://pollar.news/en/event/guthrie-pleads-for-mothers-return): Nearly six months after her mother's disappearance, Savannah Guthrie recorded a new Instagram video pleading directly with the kidnappers: '
- [Seville grants license for Polígono Sur mosque, overriding Vox objections](https://pollar.news/en/event/seville-mosque-license-approved): The Urbanism Commission gave the green light on Tuesday to the long-planned Islamic cultural centre and mosque in Seville's Polígono Sur, re
- [CDU's Schulze and AfD's Siegmund clash over migration and energy in Saxony-Anhalt debate](https://pollar.news/en/event/migration-clash-in-magdeburg): Six weeks before Saxony-Anhalt's state election, CDU premier Sven Schulze and AfD challenger Ulrich Siegmund faced off in a televised debate
- [15-year-old arrested after shooting at Seattle food festival kills three, injures five](https://pollar.news/en/event/seattle-festival-shooting): A 15-year-old is in custody and a second shooter is being sought after gunfire erupted Sunday evening at the Bite of Seattle food festival n
- [Funeral home owner stored 31 bodies on shelves in Hull, sentencing hearing begins](https://pollar.news/en/event/bodies-stored-on-shelves): A former funeral director in Hull, UK, faces prison after pleading guilty to storing 31 corpses in a refrigeration unit, some decomposing, a
- [Trump administration files emergency Supreme Court appeal to enforce mail-in voting restrictions](https://pollar.news/en/event/scotus-plea-on-mail-voting): The Justice Department filed an emergency application Monday after a federal appeals court upheld a block on the March executive order in 23
- [Early morning fire at Novate Milanese recycling plant injures custodian, black smoke visible for miles](https://pollar.news/en/event/milan-waste-plant-fire): A fire broke out before dawn at the A2A-managed ecological platform in Novate Milanese, sending a dense column of black smoke visible for te
- [Kaczyński leads poll on right-wing leadership after PiS split, but 42% undecided](https://pollar.news/en/event/kaczynski-leads-right-wing-poll): A new survey shows 20% see Jarosław Kaczyński as the main right-wing leader after the PiS fracture, with President Karol Nawrocki at 18%. Th
- [Singer D4vd ordered to stand trial for murder and dismemberment of 14-year-old girl](https://pollar.news/en/event/d4vd-murder-trial-ordered): A Los Angeles judge ruled Monday that there is enough evidence to try the 21-year-old singer D4vd for the stabbing death of Celeste Rivas He
- [Spanish lottery results for Monday 27 July 2026: La Primitiva, Bonoloto, ONCE, and EuroDreams winning numbers](https://pollar.news/en/event/monday-lottery-results): The winning combinations for La Primitiva, Bonoloto, ONCE Cupón Diario, and EuroDreams draws held on 27 July 2026, including a 24.5-million-
- [DNA breakthrough leads to arrest in 1994 Sieradz forest murder after 32 years](https://pollar.news/en/event/1994-murder-suspect-caught): A 50-year-old man has been arrested for the 1994 murder of an unidentified man found buried in a forest near Sieradz, Poland, after new DNA 
- [Forest fire near Lepe's Islantilla Golf urbanization controlled after overnight operation](https://pollar.news/en/event/lepe-wildfire-controlled): The blaze broke out Monday evening near residential homes, triggering road closures and a large-scale response; it was declared stabilized t
- [Favaretto beats Errigo in all-Italian final to win women's foil world title in Hong Kong](https://pollar.news/en/event/favaretto-takes-world-foil-gold): The 24-year-old Italian beat teammate Arianna Errigo 15-7 for her first individual world title, as Italy topped the medals table after the i
- [Trump and Netanyahu to hold tense White House meeting as Iran war strains alliance](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-netanyahu-iran-rift): The Israeli prime minister's seventh visit since Trump's return comes as the two leaders diverge on how to end the conflict with Tehran.
- [Cologne appeals 5,000-euro fine over party noise at Brüsseler Platz](https://pollar.news/en/event/cologne-appeals-noise-fine): The city of Cologne has asked the Higher Administrative Court in Münster to overturn a 5,000-euro coercive penalty imposed for failing to cu
- [17-year-old dies after collapsing in Lamia square; post-mortem ordered](https://pollar.news/en/event/teen-dies-in-lamia-square): A 17-year-old student suddenly collapsed while with friends in a North Lamia square late Monday. Resuscitation attempts by relatives and par
- [Unilever posts best volume growth in 16 years, upgrades full-year outlook](https://pollar.news/en/event/unilever-upgrades-guidance): The Dove and Domestos maker reported 5.5% volume growth in Q2, its strongest since 2010, driven by Latin America and India, and now expects 
- [Ariana Grande sues hackers over leaks of 45 unreleased songs in 2023, hundreds since 2011](https://pollar.news/en/event/grande-sues-music-hackers): The pop star filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Monday, alleging hackers stole 45 songs in 2023 alone and have leaked hundreds of tracks sinc
- [Attica authorities seize 6.2 tons of unsafe meat, uncover illegal plant in Ilion](https://pollar.news/en/event/attica-meat-seizure): An unlicensed meat processing facility in Ilion was raided, leading to the seizure of 6,047 kg of unlabeled products and a trace-back to 20 
- [Northern Ireland's Olympic champions miss out on medals as England claim first athletics golds at Commonwealth Games](https://pollar.news/en/event/tardis-opens-commonwealth-games): Olympic champions Daniel Wiffen and Rhys McClenaghan missed out on medals for Northern Ireland, while England's Thomas Young and Sophie Hahn
- [France stabilises Bordeaux blaze as Germany deploys helicopters before new heat wave strikes](https://pollar.news/en/event/bordeaux-fire-steadies): French authorities stabilised a wildfire near Bordeaux early Monday after it burned 42,000 hectares, as German military helicopters arrived 
- [Polish woman killed in Berlin Pride ramming; suspect shot dead, release from custody under fire](https://pollar.news/en/event/polish-victim-in-berlin-attack): A 65-year-old Polish woman was killed and 29 others injured when an Islamist attacker drove a van into Berlin's Christopher Street Day parad

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