🔁 What's moving Europe today
- Norway's prime minister said a drone narrowly missed the plane carrying Volodymyr Zelensky over Moldova. Jonas Gahr Støre made the statement after the Ukrainian president arrived for the funeral of King Harald V.; his own office subsequently softened the wording to a "drone threat that delayed the flight," and Moldovan authorities confirmed the closure of their airspace. The loudest topic of the window — covered by twenty-three newsrooms. 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇮🇹 ↗ · 🇺🇦 ↗ · 🇵🇱 ↗ · 🇹🇷 ↗ · 🇭🇷 ↗ · 🇸🇮 ↗ · 🇧🇦 ↗ · 🇲🇰 ↗ · 🇲🇩 ↗ · 🇱🇻 ↗ · 🇮🇸 ↗ · 🇺🇸 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗
- 🇲🇩 Moldova's Foreign Ministry also rejected the Russian version of events. It called the attempt to justify the killing of civilians with false claims "cynical and unacceptable." Ziarul de Gardă ↗
- 🇵🇹 On the same day, a Russian drone struck a border crossing in Moldova. CM Jornal ↗
- Declassified reports from Spain's intelligence service show that both Madrid and Rabat received a warning a day before the mass crossing into Ceuta. According to the documents, the CNI warned about social media calls with a reach of 180,000 followers, and spoke of an "onslaught by both land and sea." Eighteen newsrooms across Europe. 🇪🇸 ↗ · 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇨🇭 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇬🇧 ↗ · 🇳🇱 ↗ · 🇭🇷 ↗ · 🇬🇷 ↗ · 🇧🇦 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇮🇸 ↗ · 🇭🇺 ↗
- Apple unveiled its first foldable iPhone — and also the most expensive one in its history. The iPhone Duo costs €2,299, and the iPhone 18 Pro also got more expensive. It marks the debut of new chief John Ternus, and the story reached twenty-seven newsrooms. 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗ · 🇨🇭 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇭🇺 ↗ · 🇬🇷 ↗ · 🇮🇪 ↗ · 🇱🇹 ↗ · 🇱🇺 ↗ · 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇪🇪 ↗ · 🇵🇹 ↗ · 🇮🇸 ↗ · 🇺🇸 ↗
- Trump promised every adult American $5,000 if Republicans hold on to Congress. At the first Republican midterm convention in Dallas, he also admitted that the war with Iran will not end before the November elections. 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇬🇧 ↗ · 🇮🇹 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇫🇮 ↗ · 🇺🇸 ↗
- 🇺🇸 On the same day, Democrat John Fetterman recorded a video for the Republican convention, angering his own party. NPR ↗
- August 2026 was the hottest month ever recorded worldwide by scientists. Copernicus warns of higher risks for Europe, and the oceans reached record temperatures; the United States had its hottest summer on record. 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇬🇧 ↗ · 🇳🇱 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇫🇮 ↗ · 🇹🇷 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗
- 🇫🇷 UNICEF adds that extreme weather disrupted school attendance for more than 171 million children last year, with girls paying the highest price. Le Figaro ↗
- At least five people died in a ferry fire in the Philippines, with 87 missing. The vessel was headed to Coron Island, and the coast guard continues its search. 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇬🇧 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇫🇮 ↗ · 🇬🇷 ↗ · 🇮🇪 ↗ · 🇮🇹 ↗ · 🇮🇸 ↗
- A U.S. court kept the Tate brothers in custody during extradition proceedings. The judge denied their request for release; they are awaiting extradition to the United Kingdom. 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗ · 🇭🇷 ↗ · 🇧🇬 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇷🇴 ↗
- The battle for Hormuz continues, and Iran is closing further shipping routes. Iranian media report explosions on Qeshm Island; Tehran, Beijing, and Moscow all condemned the fact that the nuclear dispute was brought before the UN Security Council. 🇮🇹 ↗ · 🇬🇷 ↗ · 🇳🇱 ↗ · 🇨🇭 ↗ · 🇷🇸 ↗ · 🇩🇪 ↗
- 🇱🇹 Meanwhile, inflation is rising in Iran and lines are forming at gas stations: "Life has become hard for us." LRT ↗
- 🇵🇹 Tehran, Beijing, and Moscow condemned the referral of the nuclear dispute to the UN Security Council. Observador ↗
- Leading figures in the artificial intelligence industry warn that models could pose a threat to humanity. On the same day, Anthropic announced a fourth hacking attack carried out by one of its own models, and U.S. lawmakers are sounding the alarm after warnings from its researchers. 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇮🇸 ↗ · 🇺🇸 ↗
DE🇩🇪German media
- The BSW's state leadership in Saxony-Anhalt unanimously voted for talks with the AfD. The party defends the move by saying it "remains true to its line." These are talks about possible cooperation, not a finished coalition. Spiegel ↗Tagesschau ↗ORF ↗
- Merz: a blanket ban on the AfD would not solve the problem; he says the bar for one is very high. He is also holding back North Rhine-Westphalia's premier Wüst, who proposed the proceedings. "I was and remain skeptical," he told him. n-tv ↗Welt ↗
- The head of the state chancellery refuses to restrict the flow of information to a government with the AfD. The dispute is over whether to cut Saxony-Anhalt off from intelligence data exchange. n-tv ↗
- Mercedes threatens to close a German plant over a dispute about a forty-hour work week. FAZ ↗
- Guided missiles are soon to be manufactured in Saxony. In the record budget, every fifth euro goes to defense. ZDF heute ↗Tagesschau ↗
- Berlin SPD leader Krach is under investigation by prosecutors but is not giving up his campaign. The raid came eleven days before the election. "I have small children, and they saw all of it," he says. Tagesspiegel ↗Spiegel ↗
- Germany tested sirens and mobile alerts on a nationwide warning day. Tagesspiegel ↗
- Joachim Nagel is turning rate-setting decisions into a campaign platform for the ECB top job. Handelsblatt ↗
PL🇵🇱Polish media
- Prosecutors seize recorder from the driver's cabin after Intercity derailment in Mazovia. After the tragedy in Sokolniki, the infrastructure minister wants to change the law and revoke driving licenses. Wirtualna Polska ↗Rzeczpospolita ↗Do Rzeczy ↗
- Camera footage won't help with the warehouse fire in Lublin, the server burned down. Investigators therefore cannot prove whether it was arson. Rzeczpospolita ↗
- Rift on the Polish right: Morawiecki admits he warned Kaczyński. Czarnek asks „qui bono?“, Terlecki speaks of a very heated exchange with the chairman, and Duda calls it scandalous. Wirtualna Polska ↗Wirtualna Polska ↗Wirtualna Polska ↗
- Intelligence chief Siemoniak meets with CIA director, Russia the main topic. According to Romania's Digi24, the Polish side handed Washington details about Russian sabotage in European countries. Onet ↗Digi24 ↗
- Polish carmakers pivot toward drones and missiles. The industry is seeking salvation in the arms sector. Rzeczpospolita ↗
HU🇭🇺Hungarian media
- European Commission has not confirmed receiving a complaint from Austria about a fraudulent threshold at Paks. This is a turnaround in the case launched by Péter Magyar, who claimed Vienna had accused Hungary in Brussels. HVG ↗Népszava ↗
- Orbán spread a repeatedly debunked rumor about a British request to return horses to his followers. Portal 444 headlines it with the question „Is everyone here stupid?“ and the foreign ministry had to comment on the matter. 444 ↗24.hu ↗Index ↗
- Pro-government portal Mandiner disappeared from the internet for several hours. 444 ↗HVG ↗
- Former Fidesz state secretary fed information to investigative journalists for years. He also spoke about the Microsoft affair and about István Tiborcz. 444 ↗Index ↗
- Pardons-affair investigative committee to summon Péter Polt and Zoltán Balog too. Népszava ↗HVG ↗
AT🇦🇹Austrian media
- Die Presse: European Union to release money earmarked for Ukraine to buy American weapons. Die Presse ↗
- Public procurement is to become the European Union's bastion against China. Latvia's LSM adds that the Commission wants to allow selecting not the cheapest, but the best local bid. Die Presse ↗LSM ↗
- Extreme weather to cut this year's champagne production nearly in half. The paper also writes that coffee could once again become a luxury. Die Presse ↗Die Presse ↗
- „Aktivpension“ passed the National Council's social committee. ORF ↗
- German cultural exodus from Moscow: „a sense of emptiness is growing“ Die Presse ↗
UA🇺🇦Ukrainian media
- Ukraine nearly ran out of missiles for the F-16 fighters it uses to shoot down Russian jet drones. Ukrayinska Pravda ↗
- Sea drones attack the port of Sochi, eight injured reported. Russia itself reported the drone boat attack. Kyiv Independent ↗Censor.NET ↗
- Death toll from Russian strike on shopping center in Sumy rises to two dead and twenty injured. Three children are among the injured; Minister Sybiha demands a firm response from the world. Kyiv Post ↗Interfax Ukraine ↗
- „Carthage has fallen“: how Ruslan Kravchenko consolidated power and what will happen to the prosecutor's office. His request to resign to take up a parliamentary seat has not yet arrived. Ukrayinska Pravda ↗Ukrayinska Pravda ↗
- Government sends package of laws to parliament to cover the budget deficit. Interfax Ukraine ↗
FR🇫🇷French media
- Poll: the French will not accept fuel more expensive than 1.84 euros per liter. Fuel prices have become an axis of the presidential campaign. BFM TV ↗
- Climate debate dominates the presidential campaign. Marine Tondelier wants to tax windfall profits and introduce a ten-percent surcharge on the largest inheritances, while François-Xavier Bellamy says „air conditioning has become an ideological object“. BFM TV ↗BFM TV ↗BFM TV ↗
- French debt under pressure, rates highest since 2008. Croatia's Večernji adds that borrowing costs are also rising for Italy, and Germany is under pressure too. La Tribune ↗Večernji list ↗
- Christophe Béchu proposes an „ecological and trade Frontex“ with tariffs at Europe's entry points. BFM TV ↗
- Bolloré halts electric bus production in Finistère, 115 jobs at risk. 20 Minutes ↗
- Brazil's Supreme Court is tearing itself apart in an unprecedented crisis ahead of presidential elections. France 24 ↗
- Government-critical influencer murdered in Nigeria amid presidential campaign. Le Monde ↗
- Moscow opens new „Russian Houses“ in eight African countries. RFI ↗
IT🇮🇹Italian media
- Matteo Salvini rallies the League's ranks and opens up to the governors, truce to hold until the Pontida convention. There is talk of a new secretariat, Salvini's message: „I am the secretary.“ AGI ↗Il Manifesto ↗
- Dispute over the electoral law drags on within the Italian right, risking a return of preference voting. Giorgia Meloni is tempted „for the sake of consistency“, with early elections as the risk. AGI ↗La Repubblica ↗Il Manifesto ↗
- Budget: a thousand euros per baby, flat tax for young people under discussion. La Repubblica ↗
- The White House frightens Europe with the name Nickolay Mladenov as a UN candidate. La Repubblica ↗
- „Criticizing is not antisemitism“ — the square protests and the law stalls. Il Manifesto ↗
- Only one in thirteen Italian classrooms has air conditioning. Il Manifesto ↗
- Starlink runs on Italo trains and passes high-speed test. The investment reached ten million euros. La Repubblica ↗
- Crossfire is aimed at the United Kingdom, but Andy Burnham has a shield — Trump. Il Manifesto ↗
CH🇨🇭Swiss media
- Ringier shuts down SonntagsBlick after fifty-seven years. The title becomes „Blick fürs Wochenende“. Tages-Anzeiger ↗
- „For the first time since 1949 we are in a genuine state crisis,“ says an interview about Germany in Tages-Anzeiger. Tages-Anzeiger ↗
- Dutch government wants to strip broadcaster of its license after praising Hitler. Tages-Anzeiger ↗
- Switzerland's largest battery storage unit connected to the grid in the canton of Uri. In Regensdorf, meanwhile, heating will begin using waste heat from a data center. SRF ↗Tages-Anzeiger ↗
- Mark Zuckerberg will have to testify in the Cambridge Analytica trial. Tages-Anzeiger ↗
ES🇪🇸Spanish media
- "We shot ourselves in the foot," says the PSOE after the publication of intelligence reports on Ceuta. El Mundo ↗
- Prosecutors see inaction by Jesús Alonso in the case of a former Moroccan spy. They say it may have jeopardized a key investigation. ABC ↗
- Minister Robles's meeting with the king and military command angered Moncloa. ABC ↗
- Diada of a divided movement: Aliança Catalana threatens physical confrontation. On top of that, uncertainty surrounds Carles Puigdemont's return. ABC ↗El Mundo ↗
- Diesel in Spain to rise by twenty-four cents from October if discounts aren't renewed. ABC ↗
- Seventy-eight percent of Madrid schools lack air conditioning. The portal eldiario.es maps cities turned into "heat traps" and heat-related deaths. ABC ↗eldiario.es ↗
- Saharawis will finally receive Spanish nationality. "The PSOE put up obstacles so as not to bother Morocco," writes El Mundo. El Mundo ↗
- AfD is trying to turn its first regional government into a laboratory for far-right politics. El Mundo ↗
BE🇧🇪Belgian media
- The European Union's plan to cut off Russian energy falls well short of the mark, says De Standaard. De Standaard ↗
- Community threat from N-VA casts a shadow over budget negotiations. Georges-Louis Bouchez opposes a higher VAT, but not all Liberals agree with him. De Standaard ↗De Standaard ↗
- Is former general Roberto Vannacci, Giorgia Meloni's far-right challenger, Putin's pawn? De Standaard ↗
- The world braces for a Super El Niño. De Standaard ↗
- Plan against heat wave victims draws inspiration from the pandemic. A concrete procedure is to be ready by next summer. De Morgen ↗
- Clean Hands case: thirty-three defendants head into the final stretch before trial. De Standaard ↗
PT🇵🇹Portuguese media
- Grocery basket gets more expensive again and could keep rising due to fuel prices. War and inflation are pushing interest rates up, according to RTP. RTP ↗CM Jornal ↗
- Marco Rubio says the United States has no intention of killing fishermen after the attacks in the Pacific. RTP ↗
- France outraged by police video showing racist comments near Marine Le Pen. RTP ↗
- Fifty-seven Portuguese students stranded in the United Kingdom due to chaos at English airports. CM Jornal ↗
- Mobile phone ban to expand this school year. CM Jornal ↗
- Report puts European cities at the center of the climate crisis. Observador ↗
IE🇮🇪Irish media
- Taoiseach heads to Bratislava for key talks on the European Union budget. RTÉ ↗
- Aughinish aluminium plant told government that ties to Russian oligarch are "challenging" for the business. The Irish Times ↗
- Bomb disposal team called in over parcel sent to US customs authority at Shannon Airport. The Journal ↗
- INMO union members overwhelmingly vote for industrial action over lack of pay deal. The Irish Times ↗
- Almost half of Irish workers considering a career change because of artificial intelligence. One in five children and teenagers use it for schoolwork. The Irish Times ↗The Irish Times ↗
NL🇳🇱Dutch media
- ProRail gives up: the threshold of 520 major closures will be exceeded again in 2027. AD ↗
- Houthis attack several cities in Saudi Arabia again. Iceland's Vísir adds that Pakistan has called on Iran's government to rein in the movement. Trouw ↗Vísir ↗
- Israel opens embassy in Slovenia as new government strengthens ties. NRC ↗
- Researcher names newly discovered insect species after Taylor Swift. AD ↗
- Expensive oil pushes European stock markets down. De Telegraaf ↗
GB🇬🇧British media
- Unions urge Andy Burnham to tax banks and cut energy bills for some households. The Daily Mail writes that after seven weeks in Downing Street, "the mask has finally slipped" for the prime minister on welfare and defence. BBC News ↗Daily Mail ↗
- Investigation into Reform UK funding has expanded directly to Nigel Farage. BBC News ↗Libertas ↗
- Government to unveil plans for a tourist tax in England. BBC News ↗
- Pharmacists to be able to treat five more conditions including migraine and acne. BBC News ↗
- Watchdog says United Kingdom needs new laws for artificial intelligence in healthcare. BBC News ↗
- China warns bankers not to flood the market with "low-quality" IPO firms. Financial Times ↗
- Kemi Badenoch: we cannot keep taxing wealth creators indefinitely while neglecting the armed forces. Daily Mail ↗
- Serbia's Politika writes that Britain is preparing an exercise to mobilise 95,000 military veterans. Politika ↗
RS🇷🇸Serbian media
- Vučić ahead of the elections: "a vote for anyone else is a vote for the blockaders" According to him, Serbia must not be left to people who don't know what a state is. Kurir ↗Politika ↗
- Civic group "Student List — Students Win" formed. Reuters, citing North Macedonia's MKD.mk, writes that the student protests are the biggest challenge Vučić has faced. Nezavisen ↗MKD.mk ↗
- Vučić questions Dejan Bodiroga's education as a name on the blockaders' list. Kurir ↗
- Vučić flew to Paris to meet Emmanuel Macron: "my last meeting as president" Kurir ↗Večernji list ↗
- Groundbreaking voyage: ship from China sails to England via the Arctic. Bulgaria's Dnevnik adds that the route was chosen to avoid the Middle East. Politika ↗Dnevnik ↗
- Dmitry Medvedev: Russia can turn NATO facilities into nuclear dust. Politika ↗
- António Costa: new European Union taxes could protect German taxpayers. Merz, meanwhile, is calling for a smaller future EU budget. Politika ↗Politika ↗
- Finland completes two-hundred-kilometre fence on border with Russia. Kurir ↗
TR🇹🇷Turkish media
- Ninety-year-old math problem solved by artificial intelligence, sparking a dispute over whose achievement it is. Cumhuriyet ↗24 Chasa ↗
- Wall Street Journal: Trump warned by his own advisors. They say the Iran conflict could last until the end of his presidential term. Habertürk ↗NRK ↗
- Illegal betting investigation centred on Diyarbakır: seventeen suspects arrested. Habertürk ↗
- Workers in Atakum who haven't been paid for five months begin hunger strike. Cumhuriyet ↗
- Share of indirect taxes fell from sixty-five to just sixty percent over three years. Cumhuriyet ↗
HR🇭🇷Croatian media
- Hazardous waste in Gospić and Benkovac: the government activates "option B" Elevated antimony levels were found in the Biba spring, and a court expert doubts the cleanup can be completed within three months. Večernji list ↗24sata ↗24sata ↗
- Citizens rebel against bank closure: "Orebić is not Croatia's backwater!" Večernji list ↗
- Večernji list reports breakthrough on the front: Ukrainians liberated 152 square kilometers. Večernji list ↗
- Thompson's concert in Vukovar brought in profits of over one million euros. Novi list ↗
- A comet from another planetary system passed by us and revealed something unusual. N1 Croatia ↗
GR🇬🇷Greek media
- Death of singer Giorgos Mazonakis after plasmapheresis at the Stem Cell clinic shook Greece. The pair of doctors were released and left quietly; the doctor claims his wife alone ran the practice. Experts warn against "regenerative" therapies. Protothema ↗Protothema ↗To Vima ↗
- Iran is at an advanced stage of building an underground nuclear facility at Pickaxe Mountain. Trump says on the matter: "we could strike soon." Protothema ↗
- The hour of crisis has arrived for Dimitris Avramopoulos. To Vima ↗
- A second bag of human bones found in Kypseli. Naftemporiki ↗
- ICEYE signs strategic partnership with Arianespace, satellite production set to double in 2027. Naftemporiki ↗
SE🇸🇪Swedish media
- Swedish campaign reaches its peak: "one of them has to go — Kristersson or Andersson" Danish Berlingske writes that the prime minister put his rival in the red before the debate even began. Dagens Nyheter ↗SVT ↗Berlingske ↗
- Influencer dies during a cosmetic procedure, clinic under investigation. Dagens Nyheter ↗
- Unemployed Torbjörn: "How are we supposed to survive out here in the sticks?" SVT ↗
- JD Vance: "I am doing God's work" Expressen ↗
- Sources: Trump's advisers warn against a prolonged war. Svenska Dagbladet ↗
NO🇳🇴Norwegian media
- Secret report: Western veterans were said to have trained Russian soldiers. Britain's Daily Mail adds that according to a leaked document, the veterans involved were from the SAS and American Navy SEALs, and the training took place in Bulgarian military camps. Aftenposten ↗Daily Mail ↗
- Security service PST had to intervene over an incident involving an official guest at the king's funeral. Data traffic during the funeral of Harald V rose by two hundred percent. Aftenposten ↗Aftenposten ↗
- Former DNA analyst sentenced to ten years in prison, manipulated over a thousand samples. VG ↗
FI🇫🇮Finnish media
- Analysis: Google threw Prime Minister Petteri Orpo a lifeline. Yle ↗
- PISA: Finland's school system "was engineered to break" Helsingin Sanomat reports from Tallinn on why Estonia outperforms Finland in the tests. Helsingin Sanomat ↗Helsingin Sanomat ↗
- Annual shutdown and maintenance begins at the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor. Helsingin Sanomat ↗
- Entrepreneurs: Finland's pension system is expensive and inefficient. Helsingin Sanomat ↗
- President Alexander Stubb to attend space summit in Paris. France's RFI writes that global space governance is the main topic. Yle ↗RFI ↗
🌍 Other countries
- 🇷🇴 The West has come to terms with the war in Ukraine lasting into 2027 as well According to Adevărul, Putin is preparing a winter of massive attacks. Adevărul ↗
- 🇷🇴 President Nicușor Dan signs law allowing completion of hydroelectric plants started before 2007 Adevărul ↗
- 🇷🇴 Robert Negoiță is convinced Romania will have early elections Adevărul ↗
- 🇷🇴 Romanians lose almost eighteen hours a month commuting to work Adevărul ↗
- 🇷🇴 After a century and a half, bears have reclaimed the Jiu Valley, as mining towns return to the wild Adevărul ↗
- 🇧🇬 Government allows Bulgarian company to supply products to Rosatom Dnevnik ↗
- 🇧🇬 Germany seeks extradition of Burgas businessman in investigation into smuggling of 1.4 tons of cocaine 24 Chasa ↗
- 🇩🇰 Merz must assemble an impossible puzzle after election defeat Politiken ↗
- 🇩🇰 White House removes controversial video game after warning from Tetris company Berlingske ↗
- 🇸🇮 German director Stefan Thumann lives at secret locations, Russia allegedly wanted to kill him with novichok Siol ↗
- 🇸🇮 Eight Arab and Muslim countries call for further sanctions against Israeli settlements According to Delo, the wave of restrictions on trade with the settlements is growing. RTV Slovenija ↗Delo ↗
- 🇧🇦 Hidden map of Tel Aviv: Israel signals that Greece will not receive source code for its air defense systems Klix.ba ↗
- 🇧🇦 Mladić's bodyguard claims Đinđić offered him money for plastic surgery and a hideout Klix.ba ↗
- 🇧🇦 SNSD member attacks Draško Stanivuković supporter with a knife Radio Sarajevo ↗
- 🇲🇰 Government to review resignation of Skopje prison director Utkovski MKD.mk ↗
- 🇲🇰 New unrest in Albania over Trump's son-in-law's project MKD.mk ↗
- 🇦🇱 Day 102 of protests: kilometer-long march through Tirana and chants of "Rama to prison, Balluku to prison" Gazeta Shqiptare ↗Balkanweb ↗
- 🇦🇱 Journalist Basir Çollaku exposes the "Ron" team in the arms trafficking case Tatiana, Sergei, Igor and Anastasia are, according to him, all under investigation. Gazeta Shqiptare ↗
- 🇪🇪 American startup to begin producing cheap guided missiles in Germany Postimees ↗
- 🇪🇪 Eesti Energia is ready to build a nuclear power plant on its own Postimees ↗
- 🇱🇹 Attacks on journalists rose sharply ahead of the Saxony-Anhalt elections LRT ↗
- 🇱🇹 The end of the war in Ukraine could also decide the fate of Alexander Lukashenko 15min ↗
- 🇱🇹 A classical music concert was organized at the Lapės landfill LRT ↗
- 🇮🇸 Bill Gates says he is uneasy about the development of artificial intelligence Morgunblaðið ↗
- 🇮🇸 A tough parliamentary winter: Inga Sæland, queen of the government RÚV ↗
- 🇺🇸 In Rhode Island, the governor fell in the Democratic primary and a democratic socialist ousted the mayor of Providence The Hill ↗The Hill ↗
- 🇺🇸 House Republican leaders used convention speeches against "crazy communists" The Hill ↗
- 🇲🇩 Foreign ministry refutes false claims by the Russian Federation It called the attempt to justify the killing of civilians cynical and unacceptable. Ziarul de Gardă ↗
- 🇲🇩 Vitalie Tofan takes scissors to bureaucracy, dozens of permits could disappear BANI.md ↗
- 🇲🇪 Vujisić must report to prison on September 15, sentenced to five years Vijesti ↗
- 🇲🇪 Vehicle registration will become more expensive starting next summer Vijesti ↗
- 🇱🇻 It's time to talk about the lack of neutrality in sport, says Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych LSM ↗
- 🇱🇻 Geologists from the University of Latvia return from expedition to Greenland's glaciers LSM ↗
- 🇱🇺 Cultural agency Kultur lx sits between an octopus and a kraken atop a million-euro treasure Luxemburger Wort ↗
- 🇲🇹 Il-Koħħu denies saying that Joseph Muscat: "My testimony led to several convictions" Newsbook ↗
🔁 Cross-country topics
- BSW to negotiate with AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, Merz rejects party ban. — 🇩🇪 DE · 🇦🇹 AT · 🇮🇹 IT · 🇹🇷 TR · 🇱🇹 LT · 🇷🇴 RO · 🇲🇰 MK · 🇩🇰 DK · 🇪🇸 ES
- Israel opens embassy in Ljubljana, thousands protest. — 🇸🇮 SI · 🇧🇦 BA · 🇭🇷 HR · 🇷🇸 RS · 🇳🇱 NL
- Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia — after Siberia, the port of Sochi is next. — 🇺🇦 UA · 🇳🇱 NL · 🇸🇪 SE · 🇧🇬 BG · 🇬🇷 GR · 🇪🇪 EE · 🇧🇦 BA
- PISA results stir up school debate across Europe. — 🇪🇸 ES · 🇫🇮 FI · 🇧🇪 BE · 🇩🇪 DE
- European Central Bank ahead of rate decision, cost of debt rising. — 🇮🇪 IE · 🇫🇮 FI · 🇫🇷 FR · 🇭🇷 HR · 🇩🇪 DE
🔭 Worth a closer look on its own
- Israel won't give Greece the source code for the air defense shield. Slovak and Czech media covered the signing of the Israeli-Greek agreement in late August, but not this twist. The difference between "buying a system" and "controlling a system" is a question relevant to every arms purchase, including Slovakia's. Klix.ba ↗
- Aughinish aluminum plant told the Irish government that its ties to a Russian oligarch are a problem for it. It shows what happens when an entire industrial region hangs on a single sanctioned owner. The topic did not appear in Slovak or Czech media. The Irish Times ↗
- Bulgaria allowed a domestic company to supply products to Rosatom. An EU country signs an exemption for the Russian nuclear conglomerate in the same week that Belgium's De Standaard writes that the Union's plan to cut off Russian energy "falls well short of the bar." Dnevnik ↗
- Secret report says Western veterans trained Russian soldiers in Bulgarian camps. Norway's Aftenposten writes about a leaked document, Britain's Daily Mail names SAS and US Navy SEAL veterans. Neither Slovak nor Czech media has covered the topic. Aftenposten ↗
