{"id":6086,"date":"2026-03-13T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/6086\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:38:14","slug":"tens-of-thousands-protest-austerity-reforms-in-brussels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/6086\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands protest austerity reforms in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Brussels to oppose austerity reforms introduced by Prime Minister Bart De Wever\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police estimated the crowd at around 80,000 people, while unions said more than 100,000 took part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Demonstrators carried banners and chanted as they marched through the Belgian capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The protests were part of a broader mobilisation by trade unions against planned changes to pension and unemployment systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some scuffles occurred during the march, with police confronting protesters and medics treating injured participants, though authorities said the demonstration was largely peaceful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Brussels to oppose austerity reforms introduced by Prime Minister Bart De&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[454,76,18,4311],"class_list":{"0":"post-6086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-austerity","9":"tag-bart-de-wever","10":"tag-brussels","11":"tag-tens-of-thousands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116222617512014525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}