EU Commission HQ forced to shut down air-conditioning amid heatwave

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Even the heart of the European Union is not escaping the heatwave that has held a large part of the continent in its grip for days. On Friday, the European Commission had to switch off the air conditioning in a large part of its headquarters in Brussels. Thousands of employees were sweating, but Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her commissioners remained unaffected.

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Outside a perceived temperature of 40 degrees, inside no possibility of turning on the air conditioning. According to Politico, Friday, due to the heat wave, the European Commission's headquarters had to shut down the air conditioning system. However, not everyone had to give up the cooling system: the communication, in fact, covered only the plans of the Palazzo Berlaymont from the first to the seventh, while from the eighth to the thirteenth, …

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Officials called it "feudalism." The European Commission headquarters in Brussels switched off its air conditioning on Friday. The decision angered employees, as the executive offices remained cooled, RBC-Ukraine reported, citing Politico and The Independent. According to Politico, at midday, employees of the Berlaymont building received a text message: "BERL - URGENT - Due to extreme weather conditions, the air conditioning system has been forc…