1.🥵 HOT AIR COMING FROM BRUSSELS

EU-US Forum senior advisor Matt Mowers joined the Guy Benson Show this week to call out what he described as a “wild, deadly dogma” gripping European elites: an almost religious opposition to air conditioning.

The numbers are brutal. Over 1,300 excess deaths have been linked to the recent heatwave in France alone, where temperatures topped 41°C. Only 20% of European households have air conditioning, compared to roughly 90% in the United States, per the IEA and U.S. Energy Information Administration. Europe’s heat toll exceeds 175,000 deaths annually across the European Region, more than four times U.S. gun homicides.

Mowers told Benson: “Across the board, you’re seeing a rise of conservative parties, because they’re responding to the will of the voters, and the voters are sitting there, sweating their rear ends off in these places right now, looking at these politicians, trying to lecture them. The only thing they’re doing is contributing to the increased climate out there, because of all the hot air that they’re spewing every single day.”

Brussels won’t change, so Europeans keep failing to beat the heat. As Mowers put it, this is the literal hill they are willing to die on.

2. 🇫🇷 LE PEN BACK IN THE GAME

On July 7, the Paris Court of Appeal upheld Marine Le Pen’s bogus conviction for misuse of EU funds, but critically reduced her sentence, cutting her office ban to 15 months, which she had already served during the appeal process.

Within hours, Le Pen appeared on TF1 and announced she is running for president in 2027, declaring she would appeal to France’s Court of Cassation, suspending enforcement of the remaining sentence, and allowing her to campaign without an ankle tag while awaiting a final ruling.

She immediately launched her campaign under the banner “Pour la France, la Renaissance” with RN President Jordan Bardella as her prospective prime minister. The move was a direct message to the French establishment: it’s not over yet.

As The European Conservative put it: “[Le Pen] intends to remain in control of her own destiny and has no intention of allowing the system to dictate her fate. Her supporters have clearly understood the message.”

🚗 EYES ON THE ROAD… AND YOU.

As of this July, every new car sold in the European Union is legally required to include a driver-facing camera that films and tracks eye movements at all times above 20 km/h, whether drivers want it or not.

The mandate, buried inside the EU’s General Safety Regulation, was never put to a public vote. Brussels calls it a safety measure. But the reality is that this is a government-mandated surveillance device installed in every new vehicle on the continent, with no requirement for independent audits to verify that footage stays local, no clear rules on how long data is stored, and no transparency on who can access it.

This isn’t hypothetical overreach; it’s already happening. In 2024, some auto makers were caught selling driver behavior data to brokers who built risk scores and sold them to insurance companies, raising rates by over 20%. And that was without an interior camera pointed at your face. Now Brussels has mandated exactly that in every new car in Europe, and written the rules loosely enough that manufacturers and third parties could exploit them freely.

This is what EU overregulation looks like when it crosses into authoritarianism: control dressed up as safety, with no accountability built in.