U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps urged Europe not to restrict imports from Ukraine, pointing out London's decision to extend tariff-free and quota-free imports from Ukraine for most goods for another five years.
Farmers returned to Brussels with their tractors on Tuesday, launching fireworks, lighting fires, spraying hay and dumping manure in protest of EU regulations and falling profits. Police set up roadblocks and deployed a water cannon to contain the demonstrations and with horns blaring, tractors blockaded the streets of the European Union's headquarters in the Belgian capital. "Let us live from our work," a sign spray painted onto the front of a tractor declared. For weeks, angry farmers have bee
Farmers are bringing their tractors back to Brussels on Tuesday to protest EU regulations and falling profits while agricultural ministers meet to find a way to appease them. For weeks, angry farmers have been blockading roads and protesting in front of government offices across Europe, including the EU's Brussels headquarters. Their actions are already having an effect, with the European Commission shelving a controversial fertilizer ban and proposing to loosen conditions to access subsidies fr
Ukrainian government officials stress that the push from certain EU nations to broaden restrictions on Ukrainian food imports, notably Poland and France, poses a risk of prolonging Russia's aggression.
Farmers returned to Brussels with their tractors on Tuesday, launching fireworks, lighting fires, spraying hay and dumping manure in protest of EU regulations and falling profits. One person was arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails at security forces during the protests. Two police officers were injured and transferred to hospital, the Belgian police said in a statement. Police set up roadblocks and deployed a water cannon to contain the demonstrations and with horns blaring, tractors blockad