Dutch police remove stuck activists from the street on Saturday. Climate activists are demanding that the Netherlands remove all government subsidies for fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.
The group had already blocked the A12 in The Hague dozens of times last year. The incumbent climate minister Rob Jetten wants to make proposals for the future government to reduce subsidies in about a week. The city said the highway would be cleaned and then reopened to traffic. The clearing of the blockade was taking a long time because demonstrators had stuck themselves to the asphalt.