[lumrn]

Just adding some context on the AC and the building as well which was explained by journalist David Carretta (who follows EU politics, written in Italian) here https://x.com/davcarretta/status/2071592636260012175.

To summarise, AC was turned off floor by floor, with the switch off starting from 16:00 over a Friday, a time when most administrative personnel is getting off work for the weekend. The entire building had AC switched off by the end of the day, including the upper floors. Note that AC was working fine this Monday.

[frollogaston]

I stopped reading that Twitter the post the moment it said "so the deniers (or former ones) are now building a new campaign" which was the second sentence. But only after I had already dismissed the Politico article as ragebait.

[throwa356262]

Oh please, I needed my daily dose of internet rage and EU hate and here you are with you damn facts.

/s

(Seriously, look at these comments. What is happening to HN? Is this what previously productive people now do with their free time while their agents are churning?)

[TMWNN]

From <https://www.euractiv.com/news/heatwave-shuts-down-berlaymont...>, corroborating the Politico report:

>Staff working in the building told Euractiv that the air conditioning failure did not affect the floors above level 8, where Ursula von der Leyen, her European commissioners and their cabinets are based.