Good day on Sunday! We will not forget this December 18! The long lines of tractors that shook the Brussels buildings in the European Quarter. The whistles blaring from all sides by thousands of farmers who walked with flags and signs towards the heart of the quarter. Elsewhere, cordons of frightened police, to whom the tractors looked like tanks as they knocked down barriers like matchboxes, gave way and then moved again with the highly maneuverable heavy machines. Crackles and whistling fireworks were heard, potatoes flew, tractors roared, windows and mineshaft covers were smashed, and so on. People urged to run faster to escape the farmers' anger. The authorities were forced to release water cannons and tear gas more than once during the day. In the evening, the Christmas tree was set on fire. A coffin with a cross for the deceased Agriculture was also burning. Dense black smoke rose upward. The European prime ministers and presidents, who were meeting in one of the nearby ...
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