EU Commission's Berlaymont HQs shut off air conditioning on floors 1–7 during this week's European heatwave, while upper floors — including Ursula von der Leyen's 13th-floor office and most commissioner suites — kept theirs running.
Employees on the lower floors called it "feudalism" and a "disgrace."
Source: Politico
Poland's Foreign Minister Sikorski publicly criticized President Karol Nawrocki's decision to revoke Ukraine's Order of the White Eagle from Volodymyr Zelensky, calling it disproportionate and personally humiliating:
Our response was inadequate because it personally humiliated the President of Ukraine.
If President Nawrocki had asked me, I would have advised, for example, naming the airport in Jasionka after the victims of the UPA, and it would have been even.
Ukrainian missiles struck Russia's Titan-Barricades military factory in Volgograd, a major defense plant that produces launchers, artillery systems, and components for Iskander, Yars, and Topol-M missile systems.
Bill Maher: Iran's nuclear program isn't destroyed.
JD Vance: What part is not destroyed?
Maher: We didn't get in there. The whole thing was, we have to get in there and see; otherwise, we wouldn't be doing this.
Mehdi Hasan: Do you think there are too many Muslims in Germany?
German AfD politician Maximilian Krah: I don't want to have 10,000 Somalis.
Hasan: You don't like Somalis.
Krah: I know how Somalis perform in Western countries and I know how Iranians perform in Western countries. Both are Muslims.
JD Vance:
Iran signed a ceasefire agreement. We have honored it. If they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone.
But violence will be met with violence.
The Texas State Board of Education approved a required reading list for public schools that includes Bible passages alongside classic literature, making Texas the first state to adopt such a mandate.
The phased rollout begins in 2030.
Senior Iranian MP Ebrahim Azizi:
Once again, America has attacked Iran in the midst of negotiations.
The failed U.S. president has once again proven that he has no commitment to the principles of negotiation and ceasefire.
Certainly, this reckless violation of the ceasefire by America will, as always, lead to their retreat and regret.
WATCH: Hezbollah supporters took to the streets of Beirut tonight to protest the US-brokered framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, calling it a "surrender deal" and demanding Israel withdraw unconditionally from southern Lebanon.
Protesters blocked Salim Salam road and routes to Beirut airport, waving Hezbollah and Iranian flags, lighting fires, and rallying on motorcycles through the southern suburb of Dahieh.
Lebanese security forces deployed, with tear gas used to disperse crowds in some areas.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps says its naval and air forces successfully repelled a US attack on Sirik Island, forcing the attacking forces to retreat in defense of Iran's territorial sovereignty.
The IRGC vowed the assault "will not go unanswered" and warned that any further "foolishness" would be met with a "swift and decisive" response at a time and place of Iran's choosing.
German AfD politician Maximilian Krah:
We have more and more migrants in Germany who vote AfD. And I'm the champion.
I made a lot of videos in which I made clear especially the Turkish community should vote AfD.
The former Soviet community is already with us.
German AfD politician Maximilian Krah:
The EU will collapse within the next 5 to 10 years.
AfD is the only party who's prepared for that.
The EU is now the most economically weak, less innovative, demographically collapsing big room and big space in the world.
We don't have AI, we don't have innovation, we don't have growth.
So of course such a construct must fail.
It will fail, and we will be happy about it.
Mehdi Hasan: Do you think there are too many Muslims in Germany?
German AfD politician Maximilian Krah: I don't want to have 10,000 Somalis.
Hasan: You don't like Somalis.
Krah: I know how Somalis perform in Western countries and I know how Iranians perform in Western countries. Both are Muslims.
Mehdi Hasan: Do you understand why people worry when German politicians start talking about the genes?
German AfD politician Maximilian Krah: Yeah, we are not Sydney Sweeney.
Germany's AfD politician Maximilian Krah on Alice Weidel's wife being Sri Lankan:
When you have a wife from Sri Lanka who looks like Sri Lanka, then you are not a racist.
EU’s von der Leyen:
Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, the European Union and its member states have provided €200 billion in economic, financial, and military support.
With the Ukraine Support Loan, we will provide a further €90 billion over the next two years...
Today we are transferring the first tranche — exactly €3.2 billion in macro-financial assistance.
We will start paying the first money of the €6 billion for drone production in the coming days. This indeed is solidarity in action.
EU’s von der Leyen:
If you invest in Ukraine, you invest in Europe.
Not only in an economy of around €200 billion, but in a future member of a single market worth €20 trillion. A market 100 times larger.