{"id":80807,"date":"2026-05-12T17:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/80807\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:27:13","slug":"tens-of-thousands-march-in-brussels-during-belgium-national-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/80807\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands march in Brussels during Belgium national strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tens of thousands of workers marched through central Brussels on Tuesday as unions staged a nationwide strike against the Belgian government\u2019s fiscal reform plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Protesters carried banners opposing pension reforms, rising fuel prices and austerity measures while chanting and making noise through the city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Demonstrators were also seen holding signs criticising Prime Minister Bart De Wever and other government figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The strike disrupted public transport and air travel across Belgium as unions called for pressure on the government over planned economic measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of workers marched through central Brussels on Tuesday as unions staged a nationwide strike against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[42977,5833,42976,211,210,42979,42978,22326],"class_list":{"0":"post-80807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-austerity-measures","9":"tag-bart-de-wever","10":"tag-belgian-government","11":"tag-belgium","12":"tag-brussels","13":"tag-government-figures","14":"tag-pension-reforms","15":"tag-tens-of-thousands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116562784945789195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80807","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=80807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}