Despite the concessions from Brussels, where European leaders are meeting this Thursday, February 1, the anger of farmers in the EU has not subsided.
Although this is not on the official agenda of the Brussels summit discussions, tractors and agricultural machinery converged this morning near the meeting venue, in front of the European Parliament, according to the organizers.
A thousand tractors took over several streets of Brussels on the outskirts of a summit of leaders of the Twenty-Seven, against a backdrop of anger from the agricultural world towards European policy.
“There are a thousand tractors or agricultural machines
,” a police spokesperson told AFP, specifying that these farmers mainly came from Belgium.
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The Head of State Emmanuel Macron was expected today in the Belgian capital and was due to meet with the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen on the subject in particular of the Mercosur treaty which worries the agricultural sector and which Paris declares that he does not want to.
This treaty with important agricultural countries
“is not good for our breeders and cannot, must not be signed as it stands
,” declared French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire on Wednesday, saying he was ready to a
“showdown”
with the Commission.