Anger in Brussels. Hundreds of tractors paralyzed the center of the Belgian capital on Monday February 26, on the sidelines of a meeting of Agriculture Ministers of the Twenty-Seven paving the way for simplifications of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). As on February 1, the city housing the headquarters of the European Commission once again became the epicenter of agricultural anger: some 900 agricultural vehicles were counted by the police. Anxious to defuse discontent, member states demanded from the Commission a plan to “simplification” CAP rules. Brussels presents its first ideas on Monday. Follow our live stream.
Incidents due to an “ultraviolent” minority. The government spokesperson, Prisca Thevenot, accused a “hundreds of ultraviolent farmers” to be at the origin of the incidents on Saturday during Emmanuel Macron’s visit. They were “here to fight”, she denounced on RMC. These demonstrators “were absolutely not representative of farmers” and made remarks “extremely shocking” as “We are at home”reminiscent of those heard during far-right meetings, she judged.
Gabriel Attal denounces Jordan Bardella’s “media circus”. The Prime Minister was invited to the Agricultural Show on Sunday to participate in the dinner given in honor of the 60th anniversary of the event. He took the opportunity to criticize the arrival of Jordan Bardella and his “media circus”. “I think that Mr. Macron suffers from a worrying and dangerous schizophrenia,” the leader of the National Rally had declared earlier in the day.
Meeting of Agriculture Ministers in Brussels. The Agriculture Ministers of the Twenty-Seven are discussing proposals in Brussels on Monday to simplify and relax the common agricultural policy (CAP), under pressure from hundreds of tractors parading in the Belgian capital. From dawn, they should be “at least several hundred” critics, “between 500 and 800”to once again paralyze the European quarter, estimates Fugea, the second Walloon agricultural union.