Arriving this Thursday morning at the headquarters of the European Council in Brussels, Emmanuel Macron could not escape the horns of the tractors.
Some 1,300 agricultural machines, notably from Belgium and displaying slogans such as “He who sows misery reaps anger” on their grilles or excavators, surrounded the EU governing bodies.
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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. .
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