Brussels police officers were sprayed with manure by angry farmers who used their tractors to storm cordons in a protest over the European Union’s green deal.
Demonstrators hauled barbed-wire fences to the side of the road to create room for the agricultural vehicles to barge through the barricades.
Footage of one of the incidents showed a handful of police officers, wearing full riot gear, failing to stop the farmers as they approached a meeting of EU agricultural ministers nearby.
Baton-wielding police were doused in manure from one truck which blockaded a road in the city.
The police were left with no option but to retreat.
Local media also reported seeing farmers hurling oranges and fire crackers at the police barricades.
Water cannons were deployed to douse the flames from mounds of burning tyres and hay bales strewn across the Rue de la Loi, a four-lane highway that runs parallel to the European Council’s headquarters.
# Protests cross the continent
“There is indeed an ongoing intervention on rue de la Loi, at Rue du Taciturne, where farmers have set fire to tires. Two sprinklers are on site to try to extinguish the fireplace,” Brussels police said in a statement.
The authorities counted more than 300 tractors pouring into the Belgian capital’s European quarter early on Monday while the ministers held their talks.
Farmer protests have erupted across the continent, including in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy and Spain, over the impact of EU environmental laws, as well as tariff-free imports from Ukraine.
Many farmers argue their traditional, rural ways of life are being destroyed by liberal and metropolitan politicians living in the cities.
Officers closed access to Schuman Square, which is at the heart of Brussels’ European district, after farmers used a cycle lane to get around the barricades set up to keep them away.
I dont understand how the police is so nice to these protesters all over europe
It’s the same all over Europe. Farmers are upset they have to contribute to fighting climate change. The want everyone else to pay except them, and they want money from taxpayers to keep flowing into their pockets.
fucking terrorists at it again.
Was anything offered in exchange so that they would not feel this being just change for worse? I generally don’t know much about the topic yet.
But yet these farmers would be the first to get out of their tractor and kick a teenager that’s just sitting in the middle of the road trying to bring some attention to climate change and call them terrorists.
They have no problem spraying shit all over the street though.
Farmers are snowflakes! Make them pay!
I admire the police’s restraint. Spray me shit and you’ll …
Brussels smells.
Why, again, are we tolerating this shit?
That shit literally stink to high heaven.
Trucker protests, farmer protests, extinction rebellion… western countries are moving more towards granting a veto power to whoever has the heaviest and hardest to remove vehicles.
Welcome to the age of Kratocarcy, from the the Greek “Kratos” (strength, power) and, well, “car.”
Fuck farmers, Greedy fuckers
Farmers in Europe have been given huge subsidies to do fuck all and be uncompetitive for decades, it’s ridiculous. Farmers in the UK certainly have, and France quite famously too.
Look at a country like New Zealand in contrast, a small country that is fairly geographically isolated, without much in the way of farming subsidies, yet they are a meat, fruit, dairy products etc exporting powerhouse.
The question is why? Because despite a lack of subsidies and protectionism, they’ve had to compete, and they’ve ended up on the cutting edge of efficiency and productivity in agriculture as a result. While European farming whines demanding handouts and languishes.
Ok, farmers are slowly going to the same corner where LG-protesters are. If farmers lose public support, they will just lose all the benefits they currently have and can sell their stuff at WTO rules.
when the fuck is the work season starting for them? I constantly hear them whine about how it’s so hard to be a farmer (join the gang snowflake, nobody likes to work), yet they protest for weeks at a time. and it’s not like you can resume the work at a factory after some work related protest, if you miss the start of the season you’re fucked for the entire year.
also, isn’t that an environmental hazard?
Shits hitting the fan… kinda
So what alternatives to the green deal do they offer?
Lol for a second I thought their uniform said “polite police”
The protesting farmers are becoming spoiled, out of control children that throw feces around and urgently need to be beaten
But whenever Climate-Protesters block a single lane, the same people cheering on these farmers completely lose their shit. They’re such whiny babies.
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**From The Telegraph:**
Brussels police officers were sprayed with manure by angry farmers who used their tractors to storm cordons in a protest over the European Union’s green deal.
Demonstrators hauled barbed-wire fences to the side of the road to create room for the agricultural vehicles to barge through the barricades.
Footage of one of the incidents showed a handful of police officers, wearing full riot gear, failing to stop the farmers as they approached a meeting of EU agricultural ministers nearby.
Baton-wielding police were doused in manure from one truck which blockaded a road in the city.
The police were left with no option but to retreat.
Local media also reported seeing farmers hurling oranges and fire crackers at the police barricades.
Water cannons were deployed to douse the flames from mounds of burning tyres and hay bales strewn across the Rue de la Loi, a four-lane highway that runs parallel to the European Council’s headquarters.
# Protests cross the continent
“There is indeed an ongoing intervention on rue de la Loi, at Rue du Taciturne, where farmers have set fire to tires. Two sprinklers are on site to try to extinguish the fireplace,” Brussels police said in a statement.
The authorities counted more than 300 tractors pouring into the Belgian capital’s European quarter early on Monday while the ministers held their talks.
Farmer protests have erupted across the continent, including in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy and Spain, over the impact of EU environmental laws, as well as tariff-free imports from Ukraine.
Many farmers argue their traditional, rural ways of life are being destroyed by liberal and metropolitan politicians living in the cities.
Officers closed access to Schuman Square, which is at the heart of Brussels’ European district, after farmers used a cycle lane to get around the barricades set up to keep them away.
A nearby metro station was also closed.
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I dont understand how the police is so nice to these protesters all over europe
It’s the same all over Europe. Farmers are upset they have to contribute to fighting climate change. The want everyone else to pay except them, and they want money from taxpayers to keep flowing into their pockets.
fucking terrorists at it again.
Was anything offered in exchange so that they would not feel this being just change for worse? I generally don’t know much about the topic yet.
But yet these farmers would be the first to get out of their tractor and kick a teenager that’s just sitting in the middle of the road trying to bring some attention to climate change and call them terrorists.
They have no problem spraying shit all over the street though.
Farmers are snowflakes! Make them pay!
I admire the police’s restraint. Spray me shit and you’ll …
Brussels smells.
Why, again, are we tolerating this shit?
That shit literally stink to high heaven.
Trucker protests, farmer protests, extinction rebellion… western countries are moving more towards granting a veto power to whoever has the heaviest and hardest to remove vehicles.
Welcome to the age of Kratocarcy, from the the Greek “Kratos” (strength, power) and, well, “car.”
Fuck farmers, Greedy fuckers
Farmers in Europe have been given huge subsidies to do fuck all and be uncompetitive for decades, it’s ridiculous. Farmers in the UK certainly have, and France quite famously too.
Look at a country like New Zealand in contrast, a small country that is fairly geographically isolated, without much in the way of farming subsidies, yet they are a meat, fruit, dairy products etc exporting powerhouse.
The question is why? Because despite a lack of subsidies and protectionism, they’ve had to compete, and they’ve ended up on the cutting edge of efficiency and productivity in agriculture as a result. While European farming whines demanding handouts and languishes.
Ok, farmers are slowly going to the same corner where LG-protesters are. If farmers lose public support, they will just lose all the benefits they currently have and can sell their stuff at WTO rules.
when the fuck is the work season starting for them? I constantly hear them whine about how it’s so hard to be a farmer (join the gang snowflake, nobody likes to work), yet they protest for weeks at a time. and it’s not like you can resume the work at a factory after some work related protest, if you miss the start of the season you’re fucked for the entire year.
also, isn’t that an environmental hazard?
Shits hitting the fan… kinda
So what alternatives to the green deal do they offer?
Lol for a second I thought their uniform said “polite police”
The protesting farmers are becoming spoiled, out of control children that throw feces around and urgently need to be beaten
But whenever Climate-Protesters block a single lane, the same people cheering on these farmers completely lose their shit. They’re such whiny babies.