# 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 competitiveness is squeezed between weak productivity, demographic decline, and the green transition's cost, while persistent infla
- [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 continues to compress competitive advantage cycles and test regulatory guardrails, whil
- [Climate: from mitigation to adaptation](https://pollar.news/en/threads/climate-adaptation): The world has crossed the 1.5°C warming threshold and the UN now formally deems the breach unavoidable, projecting at least 1.8°C. The EU is
- [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 legal countermea
- [The war in Ukraine and its limits](https://pollar.news/en/threads/ukraine-war): US shuttle diplomacy has produced limited, capital-focused strike pauses and pledges of further talks but no breakthrough, as both sides hol
- [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.

- [Twelve nations ban trade with Israeli settlements as UK consulate in Jerusalem faces closure](https://pollar.news/en/event/uk-sanctions-israeli-settlements): Britain, France, Canada, and nine other nations have halted trade with West Bank settlements, prompting Israel to close the British consulat
- [Iceland summons US ambassador after Donald Trump shares map annexing island and neighbours](https://pollar.news/en/event/iceland-summons-us-envoy): Iceland summoned the United States ambassador after Donald Trump published a map depicting Iceland, Greenland, Canada, and Mexico under the 
- [Spain records lowest PISA scores since 2000 as reading drops 23 points](https://pollar.news/en/event/pisa-2025-results-released): The OECD PISA evaluation shows Spanish 15-year-olds falling 23 points in reading and 16 in mathematics, with the steepest declines concentra
- [Netanyahu denies report that UAE president warned him before October 7 attack](https://pollar.news/en/event/uae-warned-netanyahu-before-attack): Book excerpts published in Israel claim Mohamed bin Zayed warned of a Hamas assault ten days prior, drawing denials from the prime minister 
- [Thieves take two Renoir paintings from Cagnes-sur-Mer museum after abandoning two in garden](https://pollar.news/en/event/renoir-museum-burgled-in-france): Two burglars broke into the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer early Tuesday, escaping with two paintings after abandoning two other canvases i
- [Trump bans Canadian dairy and alcohol as Canada imposes tariffs on $20 billion in US goods](https://pollar.news/en/event/canada-retaliates-with-us-tariffs): The United States will ban imports of Canadian dairy, alcohol, and motorcycles starting 29 September 2026 and restrict federal procurement a
- [Eiffel Tower reopens after staff strike over removal of female employees during religious visit](https://pollar.news/en/event/eiffel-tower-staff-strike): The Eiffel Tower reopened on Tuesday after a day-long staff walkout triggered by management instructions that removed female workers from vi
- [Sven Schulze wins Saxony-Anhalt CDU caucus vote following election defeat](https://pollar.news/en/event/saxony-anhalt-election-preview): Saxony-Anhalt Minister-President Sven Schulze won an 8–7 vote to lead his party's state parliamentary group on Tuesday, two days after the C
- [New York City releases 170,000 pages of post-9/11 air quality records and liability memos](https://pollar.news/en/event/new-york-releases-911-files): Mayor Zohran Mamdani published more than 170,000 pages of internal files detailing toxic exposure risks and liability concerns following the
- [Houthi missile and drone strikes hit four Saudi cities, injuring 73 and disrupting oil facilities](https://pollar.news/en/event/houthi-strikes-hit-saudi-arabia): Yemen's Houthis launched dozens of missiles and drones against energy facilities, an airbase, and infrastructure across southern Saudi Arabi
- [UK air traffic control failure disrupts hundreds of flights and triggers cancellations](https://pollar.news/en/event/uk-flights-grounded-by-glitch): A technical fault in the NATS flight data processing system forced London airspace into reduced capacity on Tuesday, causing over 425 flight
- [US destroys five Iranian oil tankers as Tehran fires 20 missiles at airbases in Jordan](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-destroys-iranian-tankers): The United States military disabled five Iranian crude oil tankers across the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, prompting Iran to fire a barrag
- [Amazon cargo jet crash kills five airport cleaning workers in Miami runway overrun](https://pollar.news/en/event/amazon-cargo-plane-overruns-runway): A Boeing 767 freighter landing from San Juan overshot the runway at Miami International Airport, crashing through a perimeter fence into two
- [US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella Sign Barranquilla Accords](https://pollar.news/en/event/rubio-visits-colombia): US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella in Barranquilla to sign bilateral agreements covering sec
- [Borussia Dortmund beat Villarreal 3-2 as Karetsas is hospitalized](https://pollar.news/en/event/dortmund-beat-villarreal-3-2): Borussia Dortmund opened their Champions League campaign with a 3-2 victory over Villarreal, a match marked by the first-half hospitalisatio
- [Hungary orders expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats over Vienna Convention violations](https://pollar.news/en/event/hungary-expels-10-russian-diplomats): Hungary has ordered 10 Russian diplomats to leave Budapest over Vienna Convention violations, marking the first formal expulsion since 2018 
- [Hong Kong First Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa Dies at 89 After Leading Post-Handover Transition](https://pollar.news/en/event/tung-chee-hwa-dies-at-89): Tung Chee-hwa, the shipping businessman who served as Hong Kong's first chief executive following the 1997 transfer of sovereignty from Brit
- [Singapore raises prime minister salary to S$3.6 million in political pay review](https://pollar.news/en/event/singapore-raises-ministerial-salaries): Singapore has announced a salary revision lifting Prime Minister Lawrence Wong's annual benchmark pay from S$2.2 million to S$3.6 million, w
- [OpenAI claims Navier-Stokes math solution with 10,000 agents as researchers raise data concerns](https://pollar.news/en/event/openai-claims-math-breakthrough): The company deployed 10,000 AI agents for 88 hours to tackle the Millennium Prize problem, drawing scrutiny from outside researchers over wh
- [Scott McTominay undergoes successful heart surgery and targets October return for Napoli](https://pollar.news/en/event/mctominay-undergoes-heart-surgery): Napoli midfielder Scott McTominay underwent a heart ablation procedure in Manchester to treat a benign arrhythmia, sidelining him from upcom
- [Oasis documentary Don't Look Back in Anger premieres in London with Gallagher family](https://pollar.news/en/event/oasis-documentary-premieres-in-london): The feature-length film Don't Look Back in Anger chronicles the 2025 Live '25 tour following the band's 15-year split. Liam and Noel Gallagh
- [Republicans open two-day Dallas midterm convention as Trump rallies support for contested seats](https://pollar.news/en/event/gop-opens-dallas-convention): The Republican Party is convening a two-day national midterm convention in Dallas on 9 and 10 September, seeking to rally voters behind Pres
- [Bosnia expels Serbian diplomats following public funeral for Ratko Mladic](https://pollar.news/en/event/eu-scraps-serbia-visit): Bosnia and Herzegovina expelled two Serbian diplomats and withdrew embassy staff after Belgrade held a public funeral with state attendance 
- [Mistral AI secures €3 billion Series D round led by Samsung at €21 billion valuation](https://pollar.news/en/event/mistral-raises-3-billion): The Paris-based artificial intelligence company will use the capital to double proprietary compute power and build data centers across Europ
- [Apple prepares to unveil first foldable iPhone under new CEO John Ternus](https://pollar.news/en/event/apple-readies-foldable-iphone): Apple is scheduled to introduce its first foldable smartphone alongside the iPhone 18 Pro lineup on September 9, marking the first product l
- [Dacia unveils second-generation Spring electric car with European production in Slovenia](https://pollar.news/en/event/dacia-unveils-new-spring-ev): Renault Group brand Dacia has introduced the second-generation Spring electric car, shifting manufacturing from China to Slovenia and pricin
- [Wüst proposes federal-state panel to examine AfD ban as CDU and CSU leaders push back](https://pollar.news/en/event/afd-ban-review-proposed): North Rhine-Westphalia Premier Hendrik Wüst called for a joint federal and state working group to examine constitutional measures against th
- [United States Bans Canadian Alcohol as Ottawa Activates Retaliatory Tariffs on $20 Billion of US Goods](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-canada-trade-war): The White House announced import bans on Canadian alcohol, motorcycles, and dairy products on Tuesday night, hours after Canada activated re
- [Chris Pappas and John Sununu win New Hampshire primaries to set up Senate race](https://pollar.news/en/event/new-hampshire-holds-primaries): Representative Chris Pappas and former Senator John E. Sununu won their respective primaries on Tuesday, setting up a contest to succeed ret
- [Formula 1 returns to Madrid after 45 years with debut of 5.4-kilometer Madring circuit](https://pollar.news/en/event/madrid-readies-madring-circuit): Scheduled for 11 to 13 September 2026, the Spanish Grand Prix will draw over 120,000 spectators to the new 22-turn facility at IFEMA and Val
- [Ukraine Secures Deals for 1,000 Patriot Missiles as EU Clears 3.2 Billion Euro Tranche](https://pollar.news/en/event/ukraine-contracts-1000-patriots): European Union member states approved an exemption allowing Ukraine to purchase US-made Patriot missiles using an upcoming 3.2 billion euro 
- [China trade surplus hits $119 billion in August as export growth widens US deficit to $29 billion](https://pollar.news/en/event/china-trade-surplus-widens): China recorded a monthly trade surplus of $119.09 billion in August as exports grew 25% year-on-year, while domestic factory-gate inflation 
- [South Park renames to South America in satire targeting Donald Trump and tech firms](https://pollar.news/en/event/south-park-becomes-south-america): Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced that South Park will adopt the name South America for its 29th season, ridiculing presidential
- [François Bayrou faces appeal trial over European Parliament assistant funds](https://pollar.news/en/event/bayrou-appeal-trial-opens): The Paris Court of Appeal opens a four-week retrial on Wednesday for former French prime minister François Bayrou and ten MoDem officials ov
- [OECD PISA 2025 study records global drop in student test scores as Greece and Germany lag benchmarks](https://pollar.news/en/event/global-test-scores-drop): The OECD released its 2025 PISA results covering 765,000 students across 91 countries on 8 September 2026, showing international declines in
- [Romania records 20-year low in PISA 2025 as over half fail basic math](https://pollar.news/en/event/romania-pisa-scores-fall): The OECD PISA 2025 assessment places Romania penultimately in the European Union, with 52% of 15-year-olds failing basic math and 48% failin
- [X Factor Italy launches 20th season with Irama joining judging panel](https://pollar.news/en/event/x-factor-italy-returns): The twentieth edition of X Factor Italy premieres on 10 September 2026 on Sky, featuring debut judge Irama and a finale scheduled at Milan's
- [Polish presidency questions Maciej Berek's qualifications for Constitutional Tribunal](https://pollar.news/en/event/berek-challenges-tribunal-head): The Polish presidential chancellery is sending formal inquiries to Sejm Marshal Włodzimierz Czarzasty to verify whether former minister Maci
- [Study links paracetamol during pregnancy to smaller reproductive organs in baby girls](https://pollar.news/en/event/study-links-pregnancy-paracetamol-use): A Danish observational study of 685 pregnant women found that daughters exposed to paracetamol in utero had smaller ovaries, smaller uteruse
- [Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch announces retirement following White House pressure](https://pollar.news/en/event/smithsonian-chief-lonnie-bunch-resigns): Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first Black secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, will step down at the end of 2026 after 38 years with the con
- [LIV Golf files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New Jersey with up to $1 billion in liabilities](https://pollar.news/en/event/liv-golf-files-bankruptcy): The breakaway golf circuit seeks to restructure as a player-owned league backed by BC Partners following the withdrawal of Saudi sovereign w
- [Polish President Nawrocki submits second crypto bill following third veto](https://pollar.news/en/event/nawrocki-submits-crypto-bill): Polish President Karol Nawrocki submitted a revised crypto-assets bill to the Sejm on 8 September 2026, offering lower supervisory fees and 
- [Portugal rejects censure motion as Montenegro presents €800 million tax cut and pension bonus](https://pollar.news/en/event/portugal-rejects-censure-motion): Prime Minister Luís Montenegro announced a €400 million IRS reduction and €400 million in extraordinary pension bonuses as parliament voted 
- [Spain allocates 2.4 billion euros in Treasury bills as yields reach two-year highs](https://pollar.news/en/event/spain-sells-short-term-debt): The Spanish Treasury placed 2,416.82 million euros in three- and nine-month bills alongside a 4,000 million euro green bond syndicate ahead 
- [Former Plus Ultra CEO confirms €530,000 fee paid to Zapatero associate for €53m state bailout](https://pollar.news/en/event/court-rejects-zapatero-plea): Roberto Roselli told Spain's National Court that the airline paid a 1% commission to an associate of former Prime Minister José Luis Rodrígu
- [Aryna Sabalenka edges Linda Noskova in three-set tiebreak to reach US Open semi-finals](https://pollar.news/en/event/sabalenka-reaches-us-open-semi-finals): Aryna Sabalenka overcame 18 aces from Linda Noskova to secure a 7-6(1), 3-6, 7-6(10-7) victory at Arthur Ashe Stadium, advancing to her sixt
- [Police arrest 21 suspects and freeze €20 million in Dubai Bank cartel bust](https://pollar.news/en/event/dubai-narcobank-network-dismantled): Spanish police and international partners dismantled a clandestine banking network that financed cocaine shipments and laundered proceeds fo
- [Frances Tiafoe rallies from two sets down to beat Alex Michelsen 7-6 in fifth set at US Open](https://pollar.news/en/event/tiafoe-beats-michelsen-in-five): Frances Tiafoe saved his tournament by recovering from two sets down to beat Alex Michelsen 5-7, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (10-6) in 4 hours and 38
- [King Felipe VI convenes defense minister and top military chiefs over Ceuta border crisis](https://pollar.news/en/event/spain-reviews-ceuta-defense): King Felipe VI held an unannounced meeting at Zarzuela Palace with Defense Minister Margarita Robles and Spain's military leadership to eval
- [Prince George begins secondary education at Eton College alongside parents](https://pollar.news/en/event/prince-george-enters-eton): The 13-year-old prince arrived at Eton College on Tuesday with the Prince and Princess of Wales to begin five years as a boarding pupil.

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