Farmers Surround EU Headquarters Building In Massive Protests Against Starvation Cultists
The mephitis of manure, melting tires and malodorous teargas pervaded downtown Brussels this Monday morning as angry farmers encircled the European Union's headquarters. This protest coincides with a meeting of the bloc's agriculture ministers. The farmers are expressing their anger over the EU's disastrous "green" policies.
The European Quarter in Brussels looks like a warzone: https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1762103742516588547
Hundreds of Belgian farmers on tractors clogged roadways around the European Council building. Videos posted on X show the chaotic scenes: https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1762068583818150296
In chaotic scenes, police met the rowdy crowd with water cannons, as protesters set fire to tires, dumped manure on the street and defied barricades: https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1762068102026826133
European farmers break through checkpoints in Brussels and head towards EU headquarters: https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1762050029051666679
According to Bloomberg, farmers are angry about bureaucratic hurdles, trade deals, climate-related rules, and efforts to help Ukraine dump cheap grain onto markets.
"There is a clear problem with the reduction of the import tariffs for Ukraine and massive imports of grain and poultry which depresses the prices," said Guillaume Van Binst, secretary general of the Federation of Young Farmers.
Guillaume added: "The measures proposed by the commission are very weak and it is more passing the hot potato to member states."
Today's protest is the latest in a series of demonstrations by farmers across several EU countries, including France, Italy, and Spain. Blue-collar folks are also furious about imploding incomes and elevated inflation.
Meanwhile, EU leaders are scrambling to defuse this ticking timebomb of social unrest spreading across the bloc. They are taking steps to reduce red tape and delay some non-sense "green" dictates.
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