If you haven’t seen “Frozen,” it’s about a place that’s cast into a perpetual winter (Europe) and is governed by a blonde woman in a tower (European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen). Among the other characters are a love interest who turns out to be a baddie of the highest order (U.S. President Donald Trump), and an annoying sidekick who keeps getting into trouble and threatening to ruin everything (Hungarian Prime MinisterViktor Orbán). At the end, everything’s resolved and they all live happily ever after (which seems unlikely).
European Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas, who is in charge of the transport and tourism brief, will also be in Paris for the opening of the World of Frozen, which is neither a frozen food shop nor about proposed legislation that’s stuck in a Council of the EU working party.
Declassified reached out to OLAF for comment and received this reply: “We think you’re confusing OLAF, the EU watchdog, with OLAF, the annoying snowman from the Frozen series. Please, leave us alone.”
The last time the EU intersected with the Paris branch of the Disney empire was in 2023, when a train carrying hundreds of MEPs and European Parliament officials took a wrong turn on the way to Strasbourg and ended up at the theme park instead. Wouldn’t the EU be much more relatable if, instead of heading off to the Grand Est region (or Alsace, for our older readers), the Parliament went to Disney once a month instead?
“Right kids, I know you want to go to Star Wars Hyperspace Mountain, but first let’s join the line for the new Hemicycle ride. You’ll get to write as many amendments as you can in 90 seconds and hope they aren’t rejected for falling outside of the regulation’s scope.”
Meanwhile, staying in France — but away from Paris — the far right has been showing it truly doesn’t care about foreigners by publishing maps that are waaaay off.