In Brussels, where today a meeting of 27 agriculture ministers is taking place EUchaos reigns as farmers lined up their tractors in the city center try to break through the police cordon and approach the building.
Farmers? Let’s go with criminals. Surreal what’s happening in #Brussels. pic.twitter.com/djM4AiyeDW
— Alexandre Krauss (@AlexandreKrausz) February 26, 2024
Farmers who arrived in central Brussels with carts full of soil, straw and manure lit tire fires as police tried to put them out with water cannons.
Unter der Brücke brennen vermutlich Reifen…. Die #Bauernterroristen sind doch wahnsinnig#Brussels #Brüssel pic.twitter.com/dFbv9GCJ5B
— 🚦🇽🇰Tanja Demogeldempfängerin 161 🖤❤️ 🇽🇰 (@OmaGegenRechts) February 26, 2024
More than 600 tractors are lined up in the city center and the main street, Rue de la Loie, is blocked off. With banners”Milk the cow, not the farmer“pastoralists and farmers call on ministers to be “prudent and one day go with them to work, to the field, with horses or animals, to see that it is not so easy because of the conditions.” Since early morning, police have also closed surrounding roads to prevent anyone from approaching the European Council.
Less than a month after the “historic” rural mobilization in the Belgian capital on February 1, when more than 1,300 tractors filled the city’s streets, farmers returned today to express their anger at the lack of response from European authorities to the just demands on which their very survival depends.
They demand fair incomes, a reduction in administrative burdens, an end to free trade agreements and an increase in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) budget.
🚜 🇪🇺 Hundreds of #farmers have driven their #tractors into #Brussels this morning to protest outside the Europa building of the @EUCouncil, which is hosting an emergency meeting of EU #Agriculture & Fisheries ministers to adress the crisis facing Europe's agricultural sector. pic.twitter.com/Izx0x0Dbb1
— Marc Tilley (@TilleyMarc) February 26, 2024
⚡️#FarmersProtest : Today, #farmers are returning to #Brussels. The police are setting up roadblocks, but it doesn't stop them 🇧🇪🚜 pic.twitter.com/7QHoqfXW7N
— Voice of Europe 🌍 (@V_of_Europe) February 26, 2024
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