Hundreds of farmers rolled into the Belgian capital with their tractors. Hay burned in the government district, farmers set off pyrotechnics and threw eggs at EU buildings.
The week before, farmers had already protested in numerous EU countries. In France they blocked all eight highways to Paris. Police secured Europe's largest food market south of the capital with armored vehicles. The European Commission announced that it would protect them from cheap exports from Ukraine during the war. The Commission also wants to allow farmers to use fallow land that was originally supposed to remain vacant.