Emmanuel Macron calls for a series of measures to tackle the agricultural crisis. Some 1,300 agricultural machines, notably from Belgium, surrounded the EU governing bodies.
Projectiles were thrown at the police, bales of straw were set on fire. “Europe remains deaf to our problems,” the unions growled. However, announcements marked this extraordinary summit, originally dedicated to supporting Ukraine at war... but which, under the pressure of peasant anger in France and in several countries, gave ample space to the Agricultural crisis.