{"id":39231,"date":"2026-03-13T08:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/39231\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:51:09","slug":"tens-of-thousands-protest-austerity-reforms-in-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/39231\/","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":39232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[11301,5833,211,210,22326],"class_list":["post-39231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-austerity","tag-bart-de-wever","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-tens-of-thousands"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116221017101478400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}