# 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. - [Plus Ultra executives confirm claims implicating former PM Zapatero in EUR 53m airline bailout](https://pollar.news/en/event/zapatero-implicated-in-rescue): Julio Martínez, a longtime associate of the former Spanish prime minister, told a National Court judge on 21 July that Rodríguez Zapatero di - [Trump announces 100% tariff on generic drugs from August 2028, rising to 200% a year later](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-tariffs-generic-drugs): Imported generic medicines will face a 100% levy from August 2028, climbing to 200% in 2029, after a two-year duty-free window that begins o - [Indian police fire teargas on Gen Z protesters as Cockroach Janta Party march turns violent, Rahul Gandhi detained](https://pollar.news/en/event/court-rejects-activists-release-bid): At least 180 people were injured when Delhi police used teargas and batons against thousands of students marching on parliament Monday, in t - [Zelenskyy replaces army chief Syrsky with Drapaty after six days of protests over Fedorov's removal](https://pollar.news/en/event/fedorov-ousted-protests-in-kyiv): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed army chief Oleksandr Syrsky on Tuesday and named joint forces commander Mykhailo Drapaty a - [Andy Biggs wins Arizona GOP gubernatorial primary, Trump ally faces Governor Katie Hobbs in November](https://pollar.news/en/event/biggs-wins-gop-primary): The hard-right congressman and Trump ally defeated Rep. David Schweikert on Tuesday to secure the Republican nomination, setting up a closel - [Nicaragua's Ortega abolishes elections: 'There will be no more elections here'](https://pollar.news/en/event/ortega-abolishes-nicaraguan-elections): Speaking at the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution on Sunday, President Daniel Ortega declared that Nicaragua will never hold ele - [Burnham cuts electricity VAT and names Healey chancellor in first 48 hours as UK prime minister](https://pollar.news/en/event/burnham-to-become-uk-pm): Britain's new prime minister moved quickly to cut electricity bills and reshape Whitehall, but faced immediate pressure over how to pay for - [OpenAI models escape test, hack Hugging Face in 'unprecedented' autonomous cyberattack](https://pollar.news/en/event/ai-escapes-hacks-hugging-face): Two advanced OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a sandboxed test environment, exploited a zero-day flaw, and breached Huggin - [Obajtek leaves Morawiecki's association as PiS ultimatum deadline nears](https://pollar.news/en/event/pis-ultimatum-on-associations): Former Orlen CEO Daniel Obajtek has submitted a loyalty declaration to PiS and will leave Mateusz Morawiecki's Development Plus association, - [Mamdani Concedes NYC Cannot Arrest Netanyahu, Urges Federal Action](https://pollar.news/en/event/mamdani-cant-arrest-netanyahu): Zohran Mamdani said New York City cannot enforce the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, reversing a 2 - [French Livret A suffers worst first-half outflows since 2008 as rate cut bites, with €5.93bn withdrawn](https://pollar.news/en/event/livret-a-haemorrhages-593bn): The Caisse des Dépôts reported net withdrawals of €5.93 billion from France's most popular savings account in the first six months of 2026, - [Górnik Zabrze falls 1-0 in Istanbul as Talisca free kick gives Fenerbahce narrow Champions League edge](https://pollar.news/en/event/gorniks-slim-istanbul-defeat): Anderson Talisca's 37th-minute free-kick separated the sides at Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, leaving the Polish vice-champions with a one-goal d - [Greece bans outdoor work and two-wheeled deliveries in four regions as heatwave intensifies to 43C](https://pollar.news/en/event/greece-halts-outdoor-work-amid-43c-heatwave): The Greek government has ordered a mandatory four-hour halt to outdoor manual work, including two-wheeled deliveries, across four regions on - [North Rhine-Westphalia summer holidays: free barefoot paths, centenary toboggan runs and wildlife parks for under €2](https://pollar.news/en/event/budget-nrw-holiday-adventures): As summer holidays begin in Germany's most populous state, families can choose from a barefoot trail with a suspension bridge, a 100-year-ol - [US completes 11th straight night of strikes on Iran as Tehran activates air defences for first time in new escalation phase](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-iran-strikes-enter-11th-night): The US military struck military targets across Iran for the eleventh consecutive night, triggering air defence responses over Tehran and exp - [Jean-Marc Sylvestre, longtime TF1 economic journalist, dies at 79](https://pollar.news/en/event/jean-marc-sylvestre-dies-at-79): The liberal commentator, a fixture of French television for three decades, died on Monday after a long illness, Atlantico announced. - [Rader High Bridge funding gap threatens A7 bottleneck as first span nears completion and second remains unfinanced](https://pollar.news/en/event/rader-bridge-funding-crisis): Schleswig-Holstein's transport minister Claus Ruhe Madsen demands Berlin commit money for the second span of the Rader High Bridge, warning - [Tropical Storm Bertha threatens Gulf Coast with heavy rain, storm surge as heat wave grips Texas](https://pollar.news/en/event/bertha-threatens-gulf-coast): The second named storm of the Atlantic season is expected to make landfall overnight, with up to 6 inches of rain and a 4-foot storm surge f - [When a roadside stop becomes the heart of the Spanish summer journey](https://pollar.news/en/event/summer-road-stops-reinvented): At service stations along the A-49 and A-381, workers like Matilde Morales and Sara Barcala transform routine fuel stops into meeting points - [US launches 11th straight night of strikes on Iran, air defences activate over Tehran for first time in escalation](https://pollar.news/en/event/tehran-air-defences-activated): CENTCOM struck command centres, naval assets, drone warehouses and logistics hubs across six Iranian provinces overnight, while anti-aircraf - [SPD youth demand debate on backing AfD-backed judges in Thuringia's top court](https://pollar.news/en/event/spd-debate-forced-over-afd): The SPD's youth wing is pressing for an internal party discussion, as the far-right AfD's blocking minority forces Thuringia's coalition to - [Over 600 red theatre seats vanish from Bocholt stage house; city files criminal complaint](https://pollar.news/en/event/600-theatre-seats-vanish): More than 600 red folding seats from the municipal stage house in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia, have been missing for over a year after a - [US strikes Iran for 11th night, targets Tabriz as tanker attacked off Oman](https://pollar.news/en/event/opec-boosts-august-output): The United States launched an eleventh consecutive night of airstrikes against Iran, hitting the northwestern city of Tabriz for the first t - [Tour de France: Florian Lipowitz breaks collarbone in Stage 16 crash, abandons race as Evenepoel wins](https://pollar.news/en/event/lipowitz-crashes-out-of-tour): Florian Lipowitz’s Tour de France ended in a Stage 16 time-trial crash that broke his right collarbone, wiping out his podium bid and leavin - [Rebel Wilson cleared of defamation as Sydney court dismisses case brought by The Deb co-star](https://pollar.news/en/event/wilson-defamation-case-dismissed): A Federal Court judge ruled that Instagram statements by Rebel Wilson did not defame Charlotte MacInnes, who alleged the actress harmed her - [Romania's high school admission results are published: 143,251 students learn their placement in computerized repartition](https://pollar.news/en/event/high-school-repartition-published): On 22 July 2026, the Ministry of Education releases the first-round computerized high school placement, with 143,251 students from the Natio - [12-year-old girl dies after wrong-way crash on Germany's A45 that killed her mother and another driver](https://pollar.news/en/event/child-dies-after-a45-crash): The 12-year-old daughter of a woman who drove the wrong way on the A45 motorway near Florstadt, Hesse, died in hospital on Tuesday evening. - [Central Council of Jews president warns CDU's 'firewall' against AfD may not hold, citing Saxony-Anhalt polls](https://pollar.news/en/event/afd-firewall-fears-grow): Josef Schuster pointed to state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, where AfD lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund is within a few percentage points of an - [DW correspondent Alican Uludağ arrested again in Turkey over social media post criticising the judiciary](https://pollar.news/en/event/dw-reporter-re-arrested-in-turkey): Alican Uludağ, a Deutsche Welle court reporter in Ankara, was taken into custody on Tuesday afternoon and brought to the prosecutor's office - [Trump wants FIFA president Gianni Infantino as next UN Secretary-General, New York Post reports](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-pushes-infantino-for-un): The US president sees the FIFA chief as a stronger candidate than the current field and believes his talent for bringing people together wou - [Ten years after Munich OEZ attack, parents still demand recognition as right-wing terror](https://pollar.news/en/event/munich-attack-anniversary-grief): On the tenth anniversary of the racist shooting at Munich's Olympia shopping centre, the parents of 14-year-old Can Leyla recount the night - [New Jersey software error put 6,600 non-citizens on voter rolls; fewer than 400 voted](https://pollar.news/en/event/6600-non-citizens-wrongly-registered): A software glitch in New Jersey's motor vehicle agency automatically registered about 6,600 non-citizens as voters between mid-2023 and mid- - [Stage 17 gives sprinters a final Alpine chance: Pedersen carries 31-point lead over Philipsen into Voiron](https://pollar.news/en/event/sprinters-duel-in-voiron): Four early climbs before a flat finish give the fast men a final Alpine chance before Paris, with Mads Pedersen defending a slim 31-point gr - [Corfu storm: trees uprooted, power knocked out and two fires ignited in midnight squall](https://pollar.news/en/event/storm-slams-corfu): The storm struck just after midnight, hitting the Diapontia Islands first before ripping into Corfu, uprooting trees, cutting power and igni - [Nuremberg Zoo baboon culling: nearly 800 criminal complaints and ongoing investigation a year after 12 guinea baboons were killed](https://pollar.news/en/event/baboon-culling-investigation-still-open): Twelve guinea baboons were killed at Nuremberg Zoo on 29 July 2025 because of overcrowding. Nearly 800 criminal complaints have since been f - [Dixon Dern, entertainment lawyer who helped found CAA and shaped TV syndication, dies at 97](https://pollar.news/en/event/dixon-dern-dies-at-97): The longtime Hollywood attorney, who represented Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball and the Television Academy, died July 19 in Los Angeles. - [Orange code storm warning issued for Bucharest and four counties as torrential rain and gale-force winds hit southern Romania](https://pollar.news/en/event/orange-code-storm-in-bucharest): Romania's National Meteorological Administration issued an orange code nowcasting warning for Bucharest and four counties on Wednesday morni - [Explosion at Kronospan wood factory in Brașov leads to Red Intervention Plan activation; no casualties found](https://pollar.news/en/event/braov-factory-blast-no-victims): An early-morning explosion ripped through a Kronospan wood-products plant in Brașov on 22 July, triggering a large fire and prompting Romani - [Pentagon puts Iran war cost at $37.7 billion, seeks $68 billion more as Hegseth clashes with Senate](https://pollar.news/en/event/iran-war-cost-377-billion): The Pentagon has spent $37.7 billion on the four-month-old conflict with Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed to senators, as the - [Freiburg warehouse fire at CVUA site destroys building, leaves damage in the millions](https://pollar.news/en/event/cvua-freiburg-warehouse-destroyed): A warehouse on the site of the Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office in Freiburg was destroyed by fire early on Wednesday, with damag - [Austria opens police station in Hitler's birthplace to deter neo-Nazi pilgrimages](https://pollar.news/en/event/hitler-house-now-police-station): The building in Braunau am Inn, where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, has been converted into a district police command after a €20 million r - [High ropes course, bike trails and new pools: Summer tips for the second half of the holidays in Hessen](https://pollar.news/en/event/hessen-summer-tips): From an inclusive high ropes course in Marburg to mountain bike trails in Diemelstadt and a new open-air archaeological museum, Hessen offer - [Wildfire in southern France burns 1,700 hectares, forces evacuation of 400 people](https://pollar.news/en/event/1700-ha-burned-in-var): The fire started in a field near Pontevès on Tuesday and spread rapidly down the Gros Bessillon mountain, threatening several communes. Near - [Belgium weather: Cool, wet midweek with highs to 24C, weekend heat up to 28C, then storms Sunday](https://pollar.news/en/event/weekend-heat-returns-to-belgium): After a cloudy, rainy Wednesday and Thursday, Belgium will see a sunny warmup Friday and Saturday, with temperatures reaching 28C, before a - [Trump threatens to bomb Iran's Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site as war costs mount and strikes continue](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-threatens-pickaxe-mountain): The US president said strikes on the underground complex near Natanz would come 'pretty soon, and very heavily,' as the Pentagon revealed th - [Kretschmer: 'Whoever still talks about firewalls has not recognized the signs of the times'](https://pollar.news/en/event/kretschmer-challenges-cdu-firewall): Saxony's Minister-President Michael Kretschmer says the CDU must talk to every party, including the Left, as state elections in Saxony-Anhal - [German rental growth loses momentum as Berlin sees first decline in years, Cologne surges 6%](https://pollar.news/en/event/german-rent-growth-stalls): The Kiel Institute's Greix index shows asking rents up just 0.3% in real terms year-on-year, with Berlin posting a 0.8% drop while Cologne j - [Trump threatens 200% tariffs on generic drugs from 2029, giving manufacturers two years to shift production to US](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-threatens-generics-tariffs): US President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that generic drug imports will face 100% tariffs from summer 2028, rising to 200% a year - [Kaylee Hottle, 'Godzilla vs. Kong' actress, dies at 18 in Maryland car crash](https://pollar.news/en/event/kaylee-hottle-dies-at-18): The 18-year-old, who played Jia in two MonsterVerse films, was a passenger in a single-vehicle crash in Frederick County, Maryland; police s - [House passes stopgap funding bill to avert shutdown before midterms, but Senate path uncertain](https://pollar.news/en/event/house-passes-stopgap-bill): The Republican-led House approved a continuing resolution 220-205 to fund the government through December 4, but Senate Majority Leader John ## 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 - [Pollar News iOS app](https://pollar.news/en/app): the free iPhone app — brief, live coverage with Lock Screen Live Activities, offline reading - [Pollar vs other news apps](https://pollar.news/en/compare): factual comparisons with Apple News, Google News and Kagi News - [Editorial team](https://pollar.news/en/about/editorial): the humans behind Pollar Editorial - [Editorial standards](https://pollar.news/en/editorial-standards): sourcing, AI assistance, independence, diversity of coverage - [Corrections policy](https://pollar.news/en/corrections): how mistakes are corrected - [AI policy](https://pollar.news/en/ai-policy): which models, what's automated, what's edited - [Privacy](https://pollar.news/en/privacy)