What’s happened?
The farmers’ protests in almost every country across Europe in recent weeks show no sign of abating, and have begun to turn more violent. Last week in Paris, the annual Salon de l’Agriculture – a major farming trade fair attended by the president, Emmanuel Macron – descended into clashes between riot police and angry farmers. On Monday this week, Belgian farmers clashed violently with police in the European quarter of Brussels as the EU’s agriculture ministers met to discuss the crisis. The protestors, who were joined by fellow-farmers from Spain, Portugal and Italy, blocked
