“We must strike at the heart of the system”
, cries a young woman in front of a long column of tractors which sinks into the middle of business buildings which compete in height, and sparkle with their glazed facade.
“We never usually hear them
,” her friend apologizes in turn, after the din of powerful horns which interrupt our discussion.
The two Brussels residents came to support European farmers who came from several countries this week to demonstrate their anger in the European capital.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets, paralyzing the city with more than a thousand tractors attempting to approach the European Parliament buildings on Luxembourg Square.
A crowd gathered with Belgian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and even German demonstrators, under the close surveillance of the police, few in number on the square, including a bicycle brigade in orange helmets, but which guaranteed…
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