Angry farmers take protest to key E.U. summit in tractors

Convoys with hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors created chaos outside the European Union’s headquarters on Thursday, demanding leaders at an E.U. summit provide relief from rising prices and bureaucracy.

Convoys with hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors created chaos outside the European Union’s headquarters on Thursday, demanding leaders at an E.U. summit provide relief from rising prices and bureaucracy.

Farmers pelted police in the Belgian capital with firecrackers, eggs and beer bottles through thick smoke from burning bales of hay, and security forces used water cannons to douse fires and keep a farmer from felling a tree on the steps of the European Parliament.

Thursday’s are the culmination of weeks of protests around the bloc, whose farmers say it’s becoming harder than ever to make a decent living as energy and fertilizer costs surge because of Russia’s war in Ukraine, more and cheaper farm imports make it hard to compete, and climate change-fueled droughts, floods or fires destroy crops.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/farmers-protest-eu-summit-tractors-rcna136703

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