Thousands of Farmers in Brussels to Protest EU Climate Agenda
Farmers’ protests [reuters.com] have taken place across Europe (France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Germany), exposing tensions over the impact on farming of the EU’s climate policies, as well as imports of Ukrainian farm produce. Their frustrations came to a head in Brussels on February 1 when farmers threw eggs and stones at the European Parliament, started fires and set off fireworks as they demanded EU leaders at a summit nearby do more to help them. The head of the European Commission and the president of the EU’s [european-union.europa.eu] Council of Ministers were set to meet with the farmers’ lobby.