Farmers were left dispirited – and sleepy – after anti-EU protests in Brussels proved lacklustre.
Around a thousand protesters with five hundred tractors gathered at the Atomium on Tuesday (June 4) on the outskirts of Brussels to protest against the EU’s agricultural and climate policies.
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Coen Ramaer is an investigative journalist from the Netherlands with a background in Middle Eastern studies, reporting on food and farming. Piet Ruig is a Brussels-based journalist who previously worked for the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. Clare Carlile is a researcher at Desmog, focusing on the agribusiness sector. Phoebe Cooke is the co-deputy editor of Desmog.