Farmers in France, Belgium, step up their protest campaigns

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal promised to do more to meet the demands of angry farmers, as the government mobilised 15,000 police and gendarmes to handle a threatened “siege” of Paris from Monday. Farm workers in neighbouring Belgium, meanwhile, stepped up their own campaign of direct action, using tractors to block a key motorway junction. […]

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