Europe Intelligence Brief for August 10: Western Europe recorded its warmest June and July ever, the Rhine, Danube and Seine are disrupting shipping and power, and three continents are now tightening their harvests at once.

The heat waves roiling Western Europe this summer toppled an average temperature record for the June-July period set in 2022

Western Europe experienced its hottest June-July on record as climate change fuels an historic summer of heat, drought and wildfires across the region, the EU's global warming…