Hundreds of farmers stormed Brussels on Monday, clashing with police as they protested outside an agricultural summit being held in the city, spraying officers with fertilizer and laying eggs on EU buildings. I threw it.
Turmoil erupted in Brussels as farmers protested against the European Union’s environmental policies and planned to sign a free trade agreement with the Mercosur bloc of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. European farmers fear the deal will further undermine their interests. Prices rise, threatening their ability to continue operating.
explosive situation #Brussels Signal of a serious incident that occurred in the Cartier area of Europe. #Farmer Ankole #farmer #farmersprotest pic.twitter.com/jhuxorL82m
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Hundreds of tractors have converged on the de facto EU capital, including farmers from as far away as Italy and Spain, and police in Brussels say farmers are in areas of the city centre. They tried to erect barricades to prevent them from entering.
🇺🚜!! ️ The European part of Brussels is like a battlefield. #Farmer Ankole #Brussels #FarmersProtest2024 #FarmerProtest2024 pic.twitter.com/alobvnfusK
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Violent clashes continued, with farmers using tractors to break through barricades and throwing bottles and makeshift projectiles at police, while others sprayed police with fertilizer, set tires and straw on fire, and the European Union Some people even covered the Rex building with eggs.
chaos a #Brussels. Le quartier europeen est assiége par des #farmer Serve as Europe’s Minister of Agriculture. #Farmer Ankole pic.twitter.com/3CtDJylDLP
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Meanwhile, Brussels police deployed tear gas and water cannons against demonstrators. Het Raaste Neuus report.
decreased concentration #Farmer Ankole and policy #Brussels : des pneus sont incendiés face au canon à eau. pic.twitter.com/GcT4F0KWgg
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Commenting on the outbreak of violence, Peasants Forum spokesperson Tigis Bolens said: “The violence taking place here today is the result of European agricultural policies that consistently disregard the economic security of our sector…If you sow misery, you will reap anger.”
“I am not in favor of riots, but there is a more friendly atmosphere here. But at the same time it is also the result of European mismanagement. is always used as.
“With this, we do not create food security, but rather ensure that our farmers have to live in permanent economic stress. We have come because we want to make our point clear to Europe’s leaders: we must choose between food security and food sovereignty. The era of neoliberalism is over. Ta.”
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Flemish Beerenbond farmers’ union on Monday distanced itself from the riots, saying it was “not our way of campaigning”.
“In recent weeks, protests in Flanders have always been peaceful and safe. What we are seeing in Brussels today is in stark contrast. That is not how we should behave. These organizations and Individuals do this at their own risk,” spokeswoman Elizabeth Mertens said.
“For us, the message we want to convey here today is to ask European policy makers to recognize the strategic importance of the agricultural sector,” she added, noting that European farmers are under strict regulation by Brussels and governments. He explained that it was placed in Therefore, free trade agreements with countries with lower standards undermine its impact.
Issues facing Europe’s farmers – high fuel costs, high taxes, excessive bureaucratic red tape, the Ukraine war, free trade orthodoxies and environmentalist regulations – will be highlighted in June. This is expected to be a major driving factor in the upcoming European Parliament elections. . Along with Europe’s mass immigration and emerging economies, the backlash against the green agenda is likely to benefit populist parties, which are already expected to make significant gains.
this is the place #farmers Raid the EU region in Maalbeek near the EU headquarters. “It’s like a civil war,” EU officials say, as tractors overwhelm police. #FarmerProtest2024 #FarmersProtest2024 pic.twitter.com/GbGPjhNuBg
— James Kanter (@jameskanter) February 26, 2024
Farmers’ anger against globalist rule was also witnessed in France over the weekend, with furious farmers breaking security into the Paris Agricultural Show on Sunday and confronting President Emmanuel Macron, who accused his country’s farmers of also accused him of not caring about the Ukrainian people. . Mr Macron is now tried He blamed the farmers’ anger on “political manipulation” by the so-called far-right wing of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN).
National Rally Chairman Jordan Bardella attended the agricultural show on Monday. Said: “The Macronists have been pursuing degrowth policies for seven years, subjugating to the objectives of the Green Pact, which insists on reducing agricultural yields and livestock numbers. It is the RN who will protect France’s agricultural power.”
President Macron criticized by French farmers: “You gave huge amounts of money to Ukraine, but you gave us crumbs!”https://t.co/52kmLNmZLw
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) February 24, 2024
