# 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.

- [FIFA's $20bn World Cup sale plan with Kushner ties sparks UEFA fury and boycott threat](https://pollar.news/en/event/uefa-threatens-world-cup-boycott): FIFA president Gianni Infantino's plan to create a $20 billion subsidiary running the World Cup with private investors including the Kushner
- [Russia issues international arrest warrant for Telegram founder Pavel Durov on terrorism charges](https://pollar.news/en/event/russia-wants-telegrams-durov-arrested): The FSB accuses Telegram of failing to remove channels used by Ukrainian intelligence to recruit young Russians for sabotage, citing over 15
- [Trump grants Ukraine Patriot missile licences while publicly cooling on Netanyahu's Iran agenda](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-questions-israels-survival): The White House hosted back-to-back meetings with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, yielding a Patrio
- [France's largest wildfire since 1949 stabilises as heatwave returns, 220,000 evacuated](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-wildfire-evacuates-12000): Firefighters in southwestern France kept the 42,000-hectare blaze west of Bordeaux from spreading overnight, but forecast temperatures of up
- [Japan earthquake: 13 dead, dozens trapped after 7.1 magnitude tremor hits Kumamoto](https://pollar.news/en/event/71-quake-hits-southern-japan): A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday afternoon, collapsing buildings, triggering a mall explosion, and leaving r
- [Morawiecki launches new parliamentary club with 40 MPs after PiS split over loyalty declaration](https://pollar.news/en/event/kurski-silenced-after-rant): Former prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki launched a new parliamentary club with 40 MPs and one senator on 29 July, formalising a split in Po
- [French DJ Kavinsky, known for 'Nightcall' and 'Drive' soundtrack, found dead at 50 in Paris](https://pollar.news/en/event/dj-kavinsky-dead-at-50): The body of Vincent Belorgey, the producer behind the synthwave hit 'Nightcall,' was discovered Tuesday evening at his home in the 18th arro
- [BMW to cut 8,000 jobs worldwide by end 2027, offering voluntary redundancy to 40,000 German staff](https://pollar.news/en/event/bmw-cuts-8000-jobs): The Munich carmaker will offer voluntary redundancy to about 40,000 German desk-based staff from October, aiming to reduce its global workfo
- [Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning 'Once' musician, dies in Dublin motorcycle crash at 56](https://pollar.news/en/event/glen-hansard-dies-at-56): The Irish singer-songwriter, best known for the film Once and its Oscar-winning song 'Falling Slowly', was killed in a single-vehicle collis
- [Iran fires missiles at US troops, US and Saudi Arabia hit Iraq militias; IRGC seizes tankers in Hormuz](https://pollar.news/en/event/iran-missiles-intercepted-over-jordan): Iran launched ballistic missiles at US forces in the Middle East, ending a brief pause in fighting. The US and Saudi Arabia responded with s
- [Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct as teenagers in BBC documentary](https://pollar.news/en/event/jared-leto-accused-of-sexual-assault): A new BBC documentary, Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret, features 10 women who say they encountered the actor between 2002 and 2016, when
- [Beppe Grillo attacks his own Five Star Movement: 'It was born to change politics, politics changed it'](https://pollar.news/en/event/grillo-blasts-m5s-leadership): The co-founder and former guarantor of Italy's Movimento 5 Stelle returned to his blog after a long silence to accuse the party now led by G
- [Manuel Neuer signals retirement after 2026-27 season: 'It looks very much like I'll stop'](https://pollar.news/en/event/neuer-to-retire-in-2027): Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, 40, told reporters at the Tegernsee training camp that he is likely to end his playing career next su
- [Nine villages evacuated on Greek island of Paros as wildfire forces tourists and residents to beaches](https://pollar.news/en/event/paros-wildfire-forces-evacuations): A wildfire fuelled by gale-force winds roared across the Greek holiday island of Paros overnight, forcing thousands of tourists and resident
- [Zinedine Zidane named France head coach on four-year deal, vows attacking football](https://pollar.news/en/event/zidane-takes-france-job): The 1998 World Cup winner succeeds Didier Deschamps after 14 years, telling his first press conference he is 'driven by the game' and wants 
- [Lindsey Graham remembered at Washington National Cathedral with Trump, Netanyahu, and Zelensky among mourners](https://pollar.news/en/event/graham-memorial-draws-leaders): President Donald Trump eulogized Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday at Washington National Cathedral after a Capitol Rotunda ceremony, with I
- [Berlin CSD attacker swore allegiance to Islamic State in video found on his phone](https://pollar.news/en/event/berlin-csd-well-only-get-louder): A 21-year-old man drove a van into a crowd at Berlin's Christopher Street Day, killing a 65-year-old Polish woman and injuring 31 others, be
- [Cruz Hewitt, 17, earns first ATP Tour win at Washington Open where father Lleyton won the 2004 title](https://pollar.news/en/event/hewitts-son-wins-atp-debut): The Australian qualifier beat American Marcos Giron 6-3, 6-4 in 74 minutes to reach the second round, becoming the fourth man born in 2008 o
- [Vall d'Uixó wildfire still out of control on day five as thermal inversions ground planes, 10,000 hectares burned](https://pollar.news/en/event/8500-hectares-burned-in-castellon): Five days after ignition near the Valencian town of Vall d'Uixó, the fire remains out of control, with crews focused on the Eslida, Betxí an
- [Teen lifeguard Ryder Williams saves boy from California surf, Trump invites him to White House](https://pollar.news/en/event/teen-lifeguards-heroic-rescue): A 16-year-old rookie lifeguard pulled a 10-year-old boy from powerful waves at Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz, California, on Saturday.
- [CaixaBank posts record H1 profit of €3.2 billion, up 8.5%, driven by loan and fee growth](https://pollar.news/en/event/caixabank-profit-up-85): Spain's largest bank added 1.1 million customers and grew its loan book across all segments, while setting aside up to €1.28 billion for a N
- [FIFA's plan to sell minority stake in World Cup to private investors triggers UEFA boycott threat](https://pollar.news/en/event/uefa-threatens-boycott): FIFA's proposal to create a new commercial entity and sell a minority stake to investors including Joshua Kushner has drawn a furious respon
- [Merz's eight-way reshuffle backfires as CDU rebels over Schnieder sacking](https://pollar.news/en/event/merz-reshuffles-cabinet): Chancellor Friedrich Merz's attempt to turn Jens Spahn's resignation into a government relaunch has instead ignited a party rebellion, with 
- [Burnham hosts social care summit as think tank warns of tax rises or spending cuts](https://pollar.news/en/event/burnham-to-become-uk-pm): The new UK prime minister brings Tory and Lib Dem leaders to the table on Wednesday, while the National Institute of Economic and Social Res
- [Kospi slides as much as 12.6% as AI chip rout deepens on SK Hynix miss and China fears](https://pollar.news/en/event/asia-chip-selloff-deepens): South Korea's benchmark index fell as much as 12.6% on Wednesday, extending a record two-day slump, after SK Hynix's earnings missed lofty e
- [Tusk appoints Barbara Mróz-Gorgoń as government plenipotentiary for Poland brand promotion](https://pollar.news/en/event/poland-gets-brand-chief): Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the appointment of Prof. Barbara Mróz-Gorgoń to coordinate a fragmented promotional landscape, aiming t
- [US and Saudi Arabia Launch Joint Strikes on Iran-Backed Militias in Iraq as Regional War Widens](https://pollar.news/en/event/saudi-joins-us-iraq-strikes): A joint US-Saudi operation struck logistics and weapons centers of Iran-aligned Popular Mobilization Forces in eastern Iraq, killing 20 and 
- [Ávila fire becomes Spain's largest on record as 77,000 hectares burn across three provinces](https://pollar.news/en/event/12000-ha-burned-in-guadalajara): Over 77,000 hectares have burned across Madrid, Ávila and Toledo, and the Ávila blaze alone, at some 50,000 hectares, is now the largest sin
- [Brazilian sports court suspends Victor Gabriel until Gabriel Pec recovers from broken leg](https://pollar.news/en/event/ban-tied-to-rivals-recovery): Brazil's Superior Court of Sports Justice ruled that Internacional defender Victor Gabriel will remain suspended until Cruzeiro forward Gabr
- [Romania scrambles F-16s after drone group detected near Ukraine border](https://pollar.news/en/event/romania-scrambles-jets-for-drones): Two F-16s took off from Borcea Air Base after radar detected aerial targets near the Danube border with Ukraine on Wednesday morning; no air
- [Deutsche Bank Q2 profit nears 2007 record as investment bank jumps 60%](https://pollar.news/en/event/deutsche-bank-profit-nears-record): Deutsche Bank's second-quarter pre-tax profit of €2.68 billion beat analyst forecasts, driven by a nearly 60% jump in investment banking ear
- [Fire breaks out near Artemida town hall, burns garbage and vegetation](https://pollar.news/en/event/fire-in-artemida): Fire service mobilized after flames ignited near the OTE building in Artemida, Attica, on Wednesday afternoon. The blaze consumes refuse and
- [UBS posts $2.8 billion Q2 profit, beats estimates and launches $3 billion buyback](https://pollar.news/en/event/ubs-profit-surges-17): Switzerland's largest bank reported net income of $2.80 billion for the second quarter, up 17% from a year earlier, and announced a new shar
- [Kenya investigates toxin link after 15 elephants die from paralysis in Amboseli ecosystem over one month](https://pollar.news/en/event/mysterious-elephant-deaths-in-amboseli): Between 24 June and 24 July, 15 elephants died across the Amboseli ecosystem in southern Kenya, with 10 showing partial paralysis before suc
- [Keiko Fujimori takes office as Peru's first popularly elected female president, vows military-led crackdown on crime](https://pollar.news/en/event/fujimori-takes-presidency): The right-wing leader, daughter of ex-president Alberto Fujimori, won June's runoff by fewer than 50,000 votes and immediately ordered the m
- [Trump hosts Zelenskyy and Netanyahu at Oval Office on day of Graham memorial, yields Patriot licence pledge and Iran reset](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-hosts-zelenskyy-and-netanyahu): On the sidelines of Senator Lindsey Graham's memorial, Trump held back-to-back Oval Office talks with Zelenskyy and Netanyahu, yielding a Pa
- [Man arrested after partner, 34, stabbed to death in Barcelona flat as child looks on](https://pollar.news/en/event/femicide-in-barcelona): A man was arrested early Wednesday after his 34-year-old partner was stabbed to death in a Barcelona flat on Tuesday evening, with at least 
- [AI employees urge US to back international effort to pace frontier AI development](https://pollar.news/en/event/ai-staff-demand-pacing): Employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta signed a petition on Tuesday calling for technical and governance tools that would give th
- [Spain grants partial pardon to Laura Borràs, commuting prison sentence to two years](https://pollar.news/en/event/borras-pardoned): The Spanish government commuted the 4.5-year prison sentence of former Catalan parliament speaker Laura Borràs to two years, citing the sent
- [Romanian parliament adopts fuel crisis law, cutting diesel excise and limiting exports to bring down pump prices](https://pollar.news/en/event/romania-cuts-diesel-tax): The Chamber of Deputies voted 293-2 to approve a law enabling temporary cuts in diesel excise duty, export restrictions and a solidarity lev
- [Telefónica cuts H1 loss 75% to €338M, raises 2026 cash flow target after Spain and Brazil drive revenue growth](https://pollar.news/en/event/telefonica-raises-cash-flow-target): The Spanish telecom group posted a net loss of €338 million for the first half, down from €1.355 billion a year earlier, as charges from its
- [Aena lifts 2026 passenger forecast to 3% as Middle East conflict diverts traffic to Spain](https://pollar.news/en/event/aena-lifts-passenger-forecast): The Spanish airport operator cited a temporary diversion of travellers from the Middle East and a shift from disrupted high-speed rail servi
- [Romania heatwave to bring 39°C temperatures and tropical nights, yellow code issued for seven counties](https://pollar.news/en/event/39c-heatwave-hits-romania): A heatwave will expand across Romania from July 30, with the west seeing up to 39°C and tropical nights. The national weather agency has iss
- [Rafael Jodar avenges Barcelona loss, beats Arthur Fils in Washington; Cruz Hewitt notches first ATP win](https://pollar.news/en/event/jodar-hewitt-shine-in-washington): Spanish 19-year-old Rafael Jodar defeated France's Arthur Fils 7-6(5), 6-3 in the ATP 500 Washington first round, while 17-year-old Cruz Hew
- [Spain's fourth summer heatwave brings 42°C temperatures, extreme fire risk, and air quality warnings](https://pollar.news/en/event/42c-heatwave-hits-spain): Temperatures soar to 42°C as the fourth heatwave of the summer begins, with alerts in 13 regions - nine of them orange - and fire danger rea
- [Nawrocki leads trust poll as Bosak surges 10 points and Czarnek plunges](https://pollar.news/en/event/bosak-surges-in-trust-poll): President Karol Nawrocki remains the most trusted politician in Poland with 51.3%, but the July IBRiS/Onet survey shows a 10-point jump for 
- [OpenAI's rogue agent compromised a second firm, Modal Labs, as safety alarms grow](https://pollar.news/en/event/openai-agent-hacks-second-firm): The AI agent that breached Hugging Face also exploited a vulnerability at a Modal Labs customer, the New York-based firm's CTO confirmed, wh
- [US and Saudi Arabia launch joint strikes on Iran-backed militias in Iraq after Iranian missile attack](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-saudi-strikes-hit-iraq): The strikes followed an Iranian ballistic missile attack on US forces and a wave of drone assaults on Saudi energy infrastructure. Iran's Re
- [Wildfire on Paros forces overnight evacuations of five settlements as winds intensify](https://pollar.news/en/event/paros-fire-evacuations-continue): A wildfire that broke out on Tuesday afternoon near Kambi on the Greek island of Paros has forced the overnight evacuation of five more sett
- [Iran fires ballistic missiles at US base, strikes tankers in Hormuz; US-Saudi warplanes bomb Iran-linked targets in Iraq](https://pollar.news/en/event/iran-attacks-spark-us-saudi-strikes): Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched ballistic missiles at a US base in Jordan and attacked three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday,

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