The night of June 7-8 was dominated by two escalations at once. Israel struck Iranian targets in Tehran, Tabriz, and Isfahan — and according to European newsrooms, it did so against the will of Donald Trump, who called Benjamin Netanyahu with the message "don't retaliate." Iran nevertheless launched the first waves of rockets at Israel since the April ceasefire, and Beirut was struck by Israeli bombs again. At the same time in London, Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the leaders of France, Britain, and Germany and agreed on five conditions for "just and lasting peace." And southern Philippines was shaken by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 with a tsunami warning for Japan and Indonesia.
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.
