European farmers drive thousands of tractors into Brussels to protest against EU's urgent appeasement. European farmers have complained for weeks that more and cheaper foreign produce is entering the EU as energy and fertilizer costs soar due to the crisis in Ukraine.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban even complained that the incessant honking of tractor kept him awake at night. On January 31, the European Commission formally proposed introducing safeguard measures to restrict Ukrainian grain imports and allow farmers to use some land that had been forced to fallow due to environmental reasons.