Brussels police confiscate tents and sleeping bags Sunday morning from a planned People's Encampment outside @ec.europa.eu aimed at pressuring EU to suspend EU-Israel association agreement.

Europe in most "dangerous situation" since WWII and Denmark ready to "down" Russian drones, says PM Mette Frederiksen @eu2025dk.bsky.social at #euco

Big climate alarm: European mayors have warned the EU about prospect of forced evacuation of their cities for "large periods of the year" due to 45-50 degrees centigrade heat, says @ec.europa.eu's Exec VP Teresa Ribera, who also calls for systems to anticipate "catastrophic" events.

EU foreign minister @kajakallas.bsky.social pours cold water on Israel @eurovision.tv boycotts. Says taking measures impacting Israeli culture, entertainment and people are "wrong." h/t @raffschaidreiter.bsky.social

Don't be fooled by the flat affect. @kajakallas.bsky.social is the hawk of Brussels. Here she is on all that goose-stepping going down in Beijing for Xi, Kim and Putin. "These aren't just anti-Western optics. This is a direct challenge to the international system."

A few minutes ago von der Leyen's trade nuncio Maroš Šefčovič said one of the quiet parts out loud when it comes to Europe's capitulation to Trump. "It's about Ukraine."

So much lunacy from Trump in Scotland including Trump saying about Gaza that "if we weren't there I think people would have starved" followed by the grim spectacle of Ursula unable to correct his willful ignorance about the many dozens of deaths of hungry children that have already been recorded.

Finally found a use for AI. Apologies in advance to folkies. And to the environment and climate. Lord knows what energy use this involved cos I hardly had to do anything.

Spain as expected strongest in favor of suspending EU trade ties with Israel on basis of gross human rights violations in Gaza. It's very much worth seeing what Spanish Foreign Minister @jmalbares.bsky.social had to say this morning about what's at stake for the EU.