Penktadienio dieną iš pietvakarių stiprės aukšto slėgio sistema, tad orų neramumai baigsis, o karštis atslūgs. Diena numatoma nepastoviai debesuota, pro debesis dažnai pasirodys saulė. Kai kur, didesnė tikimybė šalies vakaruose, trumpo lietaus tikimybė išlieka. Pūs juntamas vakarų, šiaurės vakarų vėjas. Ramesnę ir gaivesnę dieną temperatūra svyruos tarp 21-26 laipsnių šilumos.

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PARIS — Is France ready for a crisis that plunges it into darkness? The French government is planning to find out. The government is looking to organize a tabletop simulation of a sudden, nationwide power outage in the second half of 2027, according to four people with direct knowledge of the exercise, who were granted anonymity to discuss plans that have not been publicly announced. The exercise will involve the French electricity grid operators Enedis and RTE as well as several government departments and ministries and the French military administration.  Its purpose will be to determine how the country would respond to a paralyzing electricity outage of the kind that hit Spain and Portugal in April 2025, or a major cyberattack targeting the power grid as Poland experienced last year — an act of sabotage Brussels has attributed to Russian intelligence services. The simulation will test “the country’s ability to respond,” said one person familiar with preparations for the exercise, adding that it is intended to assess the time needed to restore power and the country’s ability to ensure the continuity of essential services. The exercise was formally confirmed during an interministerial committee on national resilience on July 8. A detailed announcement should come before the end of the year. The meeting notes outline other priorities, such as making sure the French state maintains access to goods considered “essential to ensuring the continuity of the state and the protection of the population.” These include “emergency blankets, generators, medicines, telecommunications equipment, equipment for law enforcement, as well as rare and critical raw materials.” Stress test Crisis preparedness has turned into a political issue in France as record-breaking heat and wildfires are forcing the country to reckon with its ability to respond to emergencies.  Last summer, the government updated the country’s National Resilience Strategy, a roadmap on how to “maintain the functions essential to collective life” in the face of war or natural disasters.  Since the start of the summer, many French regions have faced unprecedented temperatures, with mercury levels setting multiple records in June.  In the country’s southwest, out-of-control wildfires fueled by extreme heat and drought forced mass evacuations that affected more than 200,000 people. In Paris, the mayor made a desperate plea to large-scale food retailers to mobilize ice stocks over fears that first responders would run out of much-needed cubes to cool down victims of heatstroke. Opposition parties were quick to attack the government over what they described as a widespread lack of preparedness, forcing the executive to defend itself. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu also announced that the government would submit a bill to parliament to improve emergency response systems. “We want to refocus fire and rescue services on their core mission and adapt our organization to the crises that lie ahead,” said Lecornu Sunday in an interview with La Tribune Dimanche.

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. For those of you not in Brussels, the EU capital is deserted at this time of year. It’s emptier than U.S. President Donald Trump’s loyalty card for the salad bar. It’s quieter than a Zoom call with only Boomers (because none of them could find the unmute button, geddit?). It’s lonelier than Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez at the next European Council. This is because the EU point-blank refuses to give up on its summer vacation. There’s no crisis too big that it can’t be postponed a few weeks while everyone goes off to Tuscany, whether it’s Russia invading Georgia (2008), a devastating earthquake in Italy (2016), or the arrival of tens of thousands of unauthorized migrants in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta (a few days ago). Older readers may remember when in 2017 — back when the EU was entirely in black and white — then-European Parliament President Antonio Tajani wrote to Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker to point out that the Parliament was taking its summer break, and that no work should be sent over before early September. Tajani’s note was dated July 13. A note from our Irony Department: This column is off next week as I’m on vacation. Although, as Tuscany is out of my price range, I’ll be vacationing at the Schuman roundabout instead. But if major events happening while you’re on a beach or halfway up an Alp is a bad look, the alternative — working all through the summer just in case something happens — isn’t much better. In the hot summer of 2009, when Tajani — yes, him again — was merely the European transport commissioner, he drew the short straw of running the good ship Berlaymont while the other commissioners took a break. He then used the time to remind Europeans not to lose their luggage, describing the “phenomenon” of lost luggage as “very important” and “extremely worrying.” Tajani, of course, was a close ally of the late Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi, who had an awful lot of baggage (maybe even 10,000 suitcases full a day). The summer before Tajani’s plea to keep a closer eye on your suitcases, the EU had launched a bloc-wide labeling scheme for sunscreen. Günter Verheugen, the commissioner for industry at the time, called the scheme an example of “responsible business behavior.” And Verheugen had perhaps more of a need for sunscreen than most, as in 2006, photographs had emerged of him relaxing on a nudist beach in Lithuania wearing nothing but a baseball cap — oh, and he was with his chief of staff. CAPTION COMPETITION “This is Jordan, he’s my biggest fan.” Can you do better? Email us at pdallison@politico.eu or get in touch on X @POLITICOEurope. Last time, we gave you this photo: Thanks for all the entries. Here’s the best one from our mailbag — there’s no prize except the gift of laughter, which I think we can all agree is far preferable to cash or booze. “Volodymyr, when I sack a minister, they stay sacked.” by Tom Morgan

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