[Verse 1] Canadians planning trips across the sea, That ETIAS permit — still not guaranteed, The travel document keeps getting pushed along, Like a train that's always running six months wrong, Europe wants to know you at the border gate, But the system's not quite ready — amanuensis of the state, (That's a keeper-of-records, writing slow and late) [Chorus] Vamos ver, o que acontece aqui, Europe shifting, moving, asking why, Notícias voando, July twenty-one, The stories keep on coming, not a single one is done, Vamos ver, o mundo em movimento, Every headline carrying a new portento [Verse 2] International Criminal Justice Day arrived, The EU's High Representative testified, A statement for the record, standing firm and clear, Accountability's the word the bloc wants every court to hear, Then Brussels reaffirmed Ukraine despite the government reshuffle news, New faces in Kyiv, same promise — Europe won't refuse [Verse 3] AliExpress got slapped with six-two-nine million, EU fines for counterfeit goods — that's more than a trillion pennies spilled, Illegal products flooding every digital shelf, The Commission said enough, you cannot police yourself, Meanwhile methane penalties got paused mid-squeeze, Energy crisis pressure, Washington's unease [Verse 4] The Balkans at the table, knocking at the door, Enlargement conversations same as years before, Serbia and Moldova reading the fine print, Every summit promising a little more than hint, Democracy's the password, rule of law the key, But timelines stretch like shadows over policy [Bridge] Andy Burnham's got a blueprint drawing Manchester near to Paris, Closer than the Brexit architects would dare imagine or declare it, And Britain's newest Prime Minister — what's the posture, what's the play, For Trump, for Kyiv, for the architecture of the day? Europe's a palimpsest — old writing under new, Every layer of the past still bleeding through [Chorus] Vamos ver, o que acontece aqui, Europe shifting, moving, asking why, Notícias voando, July twenty-one, The stories keep on coming, not a single one is done, Vamos ver, o mundo em movimento, Every headline carrying a new portento [Outro] Palimpsest — a surface written over, yet the old remains, That's Europe on a Tuesday, carrying yesterday's refrains, Vamos ver — we'll see — the only answer anyone can give, Twenty-first of July, twenty-twenty-six
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