Brussels: angry farmers invade the city and break through police barriers
Very heavy day in Brussels, where around a thousand tractors and agricultural vehicles were concentrated, with thousands of demonstrators from various European countries, including Eastern ones, to protest against the Commission's measures on agriculture, the free trade agreements exchange on agricultural products, such as those with Mercosur and import of free products from Ukraine. More than anything, perhaps, a sign of the rejection of the European policies en bloc in recent years.
Farmers began breaking through police lines and barricades were knocked down with heavy machinery as tensions in Brussels rose. Manure spreaders were used against the frankly insufficient police blockades and against tear gas.
The judgment of the European political class by farmers is terrible, and these are the consequences.
Tire flames were thrown, and it certainly didn't improve the atmosphere
The fact is that containing heavy agricultural vehicles and, above all, angry farmers, is not easy. However, we are sure that no European politician will ask himself the reason for this anger and will simply shrug his shoulders or ask for repression
However, the farmers should not have been informed that today Parliament is meeting in Strasbourg, so there is only the Commission as the target of the protests.
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