DE🇩🇪Germany
- Netanyahu defies Trump: Israel bombs Tehran against US will — "It's me who sets the rules," Trump responded Tagesspiegel ↗
- Middle East escalation weighs on stock exchanges in South Korea and Japan Tagesspiegel ↗
- SIPRI warns of nuclear powers race Tagesspiegel ↗
- Tank deal: will the state's entry into arms corporation KNDS fail? Handelsblatt ↗
- Biontech: what does the plan for dividing the company and its founders look like Handelsblatt ↗
- Pension commission considers mandatory division of pension entitlements between spouses Handelsblatt ↗
PL🇵🇱Poland
- Hungarian services shine light on Ziobra and Romanowski — former PiS politicians to whom Hungary granted asylum Onet ↗
- Five conditions for ending the war in Ukraine — results from London Onet ↗
- Putin wanted to use summit for propaganda, but moods are bad Wirtualna Polska ↗
- Race against time for Grzegorz Braun: court verdict could reshape his political plans Rzeczpospolita ↗
- Trump disillusions important ally about war with Iran Onet ↗
- Knife attack at station in New York just before Trump's visit Wirtualna Polska ↗
- Swedish minister Svantesson: Sweden and Poland need each other Rzeczpospolita ↗
- Poland loses on artificial intelligence map against Slovenia and Lithuania Rzeczpospolita ↗
HU🇭🇺Hungary
- Government attack: "The migration pact hung around our neck along with Magyar" — Magyar Péter (premier, Tisza) target of Magyar Nemzet Magyar Nemzet ↗
- Why President Sulyok could be the central figure of Magyar's campaign Magyar Nemzet ↗
- Investigation into Bosnian "safaris": hunting people during siege — "if it's Saturday, then hunt for people" Magyar Nemzet ↗
- US Supreme Court before ruling in key cases before summer break Magyar Nemzet ↗
- Greek authorities foiled planned assassination, Hamas member detained on Crete Magyar Nemzet ↗
- Illegal weapons market in Europe grew to 2,600 billion forints 24.hu ↗
- Euro at 340 forints in 2027? Debate about adopting common currency Portfolio ↗
- Minister of Economy Nagy Márton slept in five-star hotels for million forints per night Telex ↗
AT🇦🇹Austria
- Western alliance pressures Putin to negotiate ORF ↗
- Report sounds alarm: increasingly more nuclear weapons Kurier ↗
- Trump considers buying Chagos Islands from Mauritius ORF ↗
- Iraq and Syria temporarily closed airspace ORF ↗
- Munich airport stopped operations due to fire in tower ORF ↗
- Extinction of cold spot in North Atlantic points to Gulf Stream crisis Der Standard ↗
- Effect of artificial intelligence on IT jobs in Europe: justified concerns, little concrete Der Standard ↗
- Ship with migrants sinks near Malta: at least ten dead Kurier ↗
UA🇺🇦Ukraine
- London: Zelenskyy and E3 leaders agreed five conditions for "just and lasting peace" — ceasefire, front line as basis for negotiations, security guarantees Ukrayinska Pravda ↗
- Zelenskyy: freezing the front line at current positions is the "fastest path" to diplomacy Interfax Ukraine ↗
- Zelenskyy asked oligarch Abramovich to pass message to Putin Kyiv Independent ↗
- Drones struck Sheshariss oil terminal in Novorossiysk — fire broke out Ukrayinska Pravda ↗
- Ukrainian elite unit destroyed 3,000 Russian assault drones Kyiv Independent ↗
- Ukraine changed route of Zelenskyy's flights abroad — no longer through Poland Censor.NET ↗
- IAEA: timeline for restoring storage facility at Chornobyl nuclear plant after Russian shelling unknown Interfax Ukraine ↗
- Town in Germany could elect first neo-Nazi mayor Ukrayinska Pravda ↗
FR🇫🇷France
- Middle East: Trump tries to regain control again France 24 ↗
- 17% of GDP: colossal costs of war for Israel La Tribune ↗
- Armenian elections: Premier Pashinyan reports "historic victory" RFI ↗
- Peru: Keiko Fujimori leads narrowly in presidential election France 24 ↗
- Xi Jinping praises "invincible" friendship with North Korea ahead of Pyongyang visit Libération ↗
- Senegal: Sonko calms despite political crisis with President Faye RFI ↗
- Bolivia: parliament approved deployment of army against road blockades RFI ↗
- Mélenchon at rally in Saint-Denis: betting on "new France" France 24 ↗
- Ocean deterioration continues, warns Starfish barometer Le Figaro ↗
IT🇮🇹Italy
- Israel bombs Tehran, Trump: "Netanyahu must stop" Open ↗
- Khamenei, turning to allies: "Whoever touches them will pay dearly" — Beirut under bombs La Repubblica ↗
- Senator accused of sexual violence, La Russa opens investigation La Repubblica ↗
- Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia: front moves inside nuclear plants La Repubblica ↗
- Fight for MPS bank: Intesa Sanpaolo launches bid, Banco BPM proposes merger La Repubblica ↗
- Drone struck train locomotive in Russia, one dead ANSA ↗
- Mexico unveiled Olinia, its first electric car ANSA ↗
- Field workers forced to higher performance with drugs: stimulants and pain relievers La Repubblica ↗
- Zverev king of Paris, Cobolli narrowly missed the throne La Repubblica ↗
CH🇨🇭Switzerland
- Naval drones with explosives near Romania and Greece — what's behind it SRF ↗
- Iran again violated ceasefire with attack on northern Israel Neue Zürcher Zeitung ↗
- Hegseth in D-Day speech spoke of "invasion" of European coast — commentary: doubly off Tages-Anzeiger ↗
- Latvian teenagers learn to shoot at school: "we are neighbors of a country that invaded another" Tages-Anzeiger ↗
- Nuclear comeback? Survey shows growing support for new power plants SRF ↗
- Europe must become digitally self-determined — just as in defense Tages-Anzeiger ↗
- Peter Thiel sees himself in battle against Antichrist and fears apocalypse Tages-Anzeiger ↗
- Highly toxic chemical safely transported from ETH, 250 people evacuated SRF ↗
ES🇪🇸Spain
- "They call it a ceasefire, but it isn't: in Trump's era ceasefire agreements stopped working" El Confidencial ↗
- Five chavista firms linked to Delcy Rodríguez sent money to a company that paid the "Zapatero group" El Español ↗
- Leire Díez informed Cerdán about strategy to protect Sánchez's brother: "step 1: destroy the proceedings" El Español ↗
- Companies suspend projects tied to state holding SEPI and government after wave of corruption cases El Español ↗
- Pope Leo XIV filled Cibeles with Mass for over a million pilgrims; Sánchez appropriates his legacy El Español ↗
- Something's happening with foreign voting: PSOE wins in Andalusia and suspicion grows El Mundo ↗
- Foreigners buy one in every seven properties in Spain — no longer just English speakers ABC ↗
- Europe seeks an integral shield for the energy system against cybercrime ABC ↗
- Florentino Pérez re-elected president of Real Madrid, Mourinho's return El Español ↗
BE🇧🇪Belgium
- Minister Francken puts military service for troublemakers on the table — "for young people completely unraveled it must be possible" De Morgen ↗
- Ombudsman criticizes "structural" problems in migration services: civil rights often disrespected De Morgen ↗
- Trump ordered dismantling of 900 ocean monitoring buoys: "we are horrified and alarmed" La Libre ↗
- Russia-analyst Van Bladel: threat of tactical nuclear weapon deployment if Putin is in trouble De Morgen ↗
- Will the European migration pact really reduce asylum applications? De Standaard ↗
- ABVV trade union opposes longer working week: 50 hours without overtime? De Standaard ↗
- Belgium sold stolen art: Coeck van Aelst painting found in Canada De Standaard ↗
PT🇵🇹Portugal
- Strike on registries threatens to paralyze services until Saturday RTP ↗
- Seguro and Montenegro call for return of emigrants CM Jornal ↗
- Scientists study how the organism "puts cancer to sleep" CM Jornal ↗
- Tax authority follows the trail of payments in football CM Jornal ↗
IE🇮🇪Ireland
- "Jennie's Law": law on public naming of those convicted of domestic violence heads to government RTÉ ↗
- Nine wounded in shooting at English national team training facility in Kansas City The Irish Times ↗
- DUP member of parliament defends photo with masked men at protest against Palestine march The Irish Times ↗
- Israeli military police investigating killing of seven-month-old Palestinian child by soldier Irish Independent ↗
- Shrinkflation comes to health insurance: less for more The Journal ↗
NL🇳🇱Netherlands
- From Marlboro to marijuana: tobacco giant enters legal Dutch weed NU.nl ↗
- Trump's plan with Cuba and the rest of Latin America NRC ↗
- Mayors in a bind: new coalitions want "zero asylum applicants" despite distribution law AD ↗
- China is now the third nuclear power, decline in nuclear weapons stagnates de Volkskrant ↗
- Record cocaine catch off Canary Islands linked to "Bolle Jos" NU.nl ↗
GB🇬🇧United Kingdom
- Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes on Iran — oil prices spiked, fragile ceasefire threatened Financial Times ↗
- Tech sell-off expanding, South Korean index crashed Financial Times ↗
- Former NATO chief warns Starmer: spend on defense now, otherwise Britain pays "price in blood" Daily Mail ↗
- Trump considers buying Chagos Islands from Mauritius Daily Mail ↗
- Scotland Yard received "key file" of evidence about suspect in Madeleine McCann case Daily Mail ↗
- 16,000 NHS patients died after long waits in emergency, service admits hundreds of surgical errors Daily Mail ↗
RS🇷🇸Serbia and 🇧🇦 Bosnia
- Serbian list in Kosovo: "we won 10 mandates, one they're trying to steal from us" Nova ↗
- Group of activists protesting Israeli weapons manufacturer arrested in Belgrade Danas ↗
- Syria and Iraq closed airspace while Israel warns of stronger strikes on Beirut Klix.ba ↗
- Celebrations in Iranian cities after ballistic attack on Israel Klix.ba ↗
RO🇷🇴Romania
- Bolojan: the biggest disaster is dysfunctional coalitions — rather the opposition Digi24 ↗
- How the new government is forming: steps by Tomac and future ministers Adevărul ↗
- Floods in Vrancea: 80 people evacuated including 20 children Libertatea ↗
- Exodus from Putin's army: "desertion crisis is beginning to resemble first world war catastrophe" Adevărul ↗
- Arctic trap: strategy by which Putin can bring London within reach of hypersonic missiles Adevărul ↗
GR🇬🇷Greece
- Turkish fighters harassed plane with Greek and European defense ministers over Cyprus — Minister Dendias on board To Vima ↗
- SYRIZA before its biggest existential dilemma To Vima ↗
- Commission warns Albania: Kushner-Trump project threatens country's European path Protothema ↗
- Series of earthquakes on island of Euboea after Sunday's strong tremors Protothema ↗
LT🇱🇹Lithuania
- Airspace over Vilnius airport again temporarily closed due to threat 15min ↗
- Former high-ranking VSD intelligence service officer: why couldn't President Nausėda not know about data theft? — addresses of Lithuanian homes reached the Russians Lietuvos rytas ↗
TR🇹🇷Turkey
- CHP: 307 parliamentarians demand parliamentary democracy against "absolute invalidity" — intra-party crisis, pressure on Özel Cumhuriyet ↗
- Government poll admits economic and social crisis: young people don't want to marry Cumhuriyet ↗
🔁 Cross-country topics
- Israel struck Iran against Trump's will, Iran responded with missiles and Beirut is under bombs again — 🇩🇪 DE · 🇫🇷 FR · 🇮🇹 IT · 🇨🇭 CH · 🇬🇧 UK · 🇺🇦 UA · 🇳🇱 NL · 🇧🇪 BE · 🇵🇹 PT · 🇸🇪 SE · 🇷🇸 RS · 🇭🇷 HR · 🇬🇷 GR · 🇹🇷 TR · 🇱🇹 LT (15+ countries)
- London: Zelensky and E3 leaders agreed five conditions for peace and freeze frontline — 🇵🇱 PL · 🇦🇹 AT · 🇺🇦 UA · 🇫🇷 FR · 🇮🇹 IT · 🇮🇪 IE · 🇧🇪 BE · 🇷🇴 RO · 🇬🇷 GR
- 7.8 earthquake in Philippines and tsunami warning for Japan and Indonesia — 🇩🇪 DE · 🇫🇷 FR · 🇮🇹 IT · 🇨🇭 CH · 🇪🇸 ES · 🇬🇧 UK · 🇳🇱 NL · 🇧🇪 BE · 🇵🇹 PT · 🇸🇪 SE · 🇫🇮 FI · 🇬🇷 GR · 🇹🇷 TR
- Armenian elections: Pashinyan claims victory, pro-Russian opposition loses — 🇫🇷 FR · 🇦🇹 AT · 🇨🇭 CH · 🇳🇱 NL · 🇧🇪 BE · 🇭🇷 HR · 🇷🇴 RO · 🇸🇪 SE · 🇫🇮 FI
- Kosovo: Kurti's Vetevendosje wins, but without majority; Serbian list gained 10 mandates — 🇩🇪 DE · 🇦🇹 AT · 🇫🇷 FR · 🇨🇭 CH · 🇷🇸 RS · 🇭🇷 HR
- SIPRI: increased nuclear risk, China became third nuclear power — 🇩🇪 DE · 🇫🇷 FR · 🇦🇹 AT · 🇳🇱 NL
- Xi Jinping praises "undefeatable" friendship with DPRK before visit to Pyongyang — 🇫🇷 FR · 🇮🇹 IT · 🇷🇸 RS · 🇸🇪 SE
- Peru: tight race between Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez in presidential elections — 🇩🇪 DE · 🇫🇷 FR
- Knife attack at Penn Station in New York shortly before Trump's visit (5 wounded) — 🇵🇱 PL · 🇫🇷 FR · 🇮🇹 IT · 🇬🇧 UK · 🇬🇷 GR
- Alexander Zverev wins first Grand Slam title (Roland Garros) — 🇩🇪 DE · 🇫🇷 FR · 🇮🇹 IT · 🇨🇭 CH · 🇮🇪 IE
- Christian Eriksen collapsed again during Denmark's match, pacemaker saved him — 🇩🇪 DE · 🇦🇹 AT · 🇨🇭 CH · 🇮🇪 IE · 🇵🇹 PT
- Munich airport temporarily halted operations due to fire/smoke in tower — 🇩🇪 DE · 🇦🇹 AT · 🇨🇭 CH · 🇬🇷 GR
🔦 Through the lens of foreign media
Three topics that Slovak and Czech media will probably not cover, but from a European angle are worth noting:- Sarajevo safari — a Hungarian investigation reminds of a case being investigated by Italian prosecutors: wealthy foreigners allegedly paid during the Sarajevo siege to be able to shoot at civilians. A topic with moral and historical weight thirty years after the war.
- The Baltics prepare for war — a Swiss daily writes about Latvian sixteen-year-olds who learn to shoot at school, and Lithuanian media report repeated airspace closures over Vilnius. For a Slovak reader, a NATO context that domestic media present mainly through the lens of Fico's rhetoric.
- A crack within NATO — Turkish fighter jets harassed an aircraft with Greek and European defense ministers over Cyprus. A dispute between two alliance members that shows how fragile the "unified" Western bloc is when it's not about Russia.
What hotinfo is tracking
- Whether Iran after Israeli strikes will stick to a symbolic rocket retaliation, or will cross the threshold of wider war — and whether Trump's "don't respond" to Netanyahu will actually stop him.
- The fate of five London peace conditions for Ukraine: will Moscow accept a front-line freeze as a basis for negotiations, or will it reject them as an ultimatum?
- Post-election government formation in Kosovo (Kurti without a majority) and in Armenia (pro-Western Pashinyan), where the direction of both countries between East and West is being decided.
