1. 🌡️ EUROPE IS BAKING AND BRUSSELS’ RED TAPE IS TO BLAME

European children are falling asleep at their desks from heat exhaustion. A second-grade teacher in Paris watched two students pass out mid-afternoon during a weeklong heat wave with no air-conditioning and temperatures climbing above 86°F inside a 19th century school building. An Italian education union reports only 6% of Italian schools have air-conditioning. French teachers’ unions surveyed schools and found temperatures exceeded 82°F in 90% of middle and high schools.

This is not a weather problem; it’s a regulatory failure. The EU’s ridiculous energy policies drive up energy costs so high that cooling buildings becomes economically untenable. The results are deadly: in 2024 alone, an estimated 62,775 Europeans died from heat-related causes. To put that in perspective, more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans die from gun violence each year. Brussels has made a policy choice, and European citizens are paying with their lives.

And Brussels isn’t content to let this failed Green experiment stay within its own borders. The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) are two more regulatory weapons Europe is now trying to export onto American businesses in the name of the environment. These sweeping mandates would force U.S. companies doing business in Europe to comply with the same green bureaucracy that has left European schoolchildren sweltering in century-old buildings with no AC.

President Trump has led the charge to call this what it is: foreign regulatory overreach that puts American jobs, American competitiveness, and American energy freedom on the altar of Brussels’ failed climate agenda. We already know where that road leads… 🔥

2. 🇭🇺THE LEFT COMES FOR CONSERVATIVE STRONGHOLD

Hungary’s new “centrist” government is moving to rewrite the constitution to remove Hungary’s president, Tamás Sulyok. Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced the move after Sulyok refused to resign, calling the push constitutionally baseless. Sulyok has formally appealed to the Venice Commission, warning that the effort could destabilize Hungary’s institutions.

Magyar’s government has also proposed retroactive term limits designed to prevent conservative Viktor Orbán from ever returning to power. A former Hungarian justice minister compared the tactics to 1948 communist-era purges, when President Zoltán Tildy was coerced from office as authoritarians consolidated control.

Hungary was one of the last firebreaks in the EU, and it is now under siege from within.

📱EU DRAFT MEASURES THREATEN TO TURN EU SMARTPHONES INTO A SECURITY LIABILITY

Brussels has spent years insisting its digital regulatory framework exists to protect consumers. Yet, a new set of draft measures under the EU’s Digital Markets Act is set to directly undercut that goal, stripping away core security protections for EU smartphone users in what some experts have called a “large-scale security and privacy experiment.”

The draft measures are set to dismantle foundational security safeguards that have protected smartphone users for years. These include allowing multiple third-party voice assistants to run simultaneously, meaning multiple apps could listen in on users at the same time, and mandating features that allow apps to render content directly over another.

Perhaps most notable, however, is the proposed dismantling of sandbox, which is a security system that walls apps off from one another so that a single compromised app cannot take over the entire device. Unfortunately for European users, bad actors have already exploited weaknesses in these exact areas to harvest banking credentials, personal data, and other personal information, and these changes will only make it easier for criminals to succeed.

More concerning still is the position this puts American companies in. The new DMA draft measures would directly contradict regulations the EU has already imposed, requiring US tech platforms to reduce vulnerabilities and security risks in their systems, which is precisely the type of vulnerabilities these measures would create. US companies in Europe now find themselves in an impossible position: a kind of double jeopardy where the EU will have the grounds to issue fines regardless of which set of rules American companies follow.

Just as President Trump would never open American users up to such unnecessary security risks, so too will he not allow US companies to be fined billions for being put in an unwinnable situation either. Trump has consistently pushed back against Brussels’ unfair treatment of American companies, and stands ready to do so again if the EU if Brussels presses ahead with these measures.