Brussels: belgian farmer Angered by rising costs, the European Union’s environmental policies and cheap food imports, it plans to block the access road to Belgium’s Zeebrugge container port from Tuesday, economic newspaper De Tied reported.
Demonstrators will be barred from access to the country’s second-largest North Sea port for at least 36 hours from 14:00 CEST (13:00 Japan time), the newspaper reported, citing organizers and police. It added that the lockdown could continue until Wednesday night.
“Police have received information regarding the incident. Port of Zeebrugge” a Port Authority spokesperson said, adding it was unclear what the measure would entail.
On Tuesday morning, farmers blocked traffic on the E19 motorway near the Dutch border as a convoy of tractors headed toward the port city of Antwerp, state broadcaster RTBF said.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander Decroo is scheduled to meet with farmers’ groups on Tuesday.
In recent weeks, farmers across Europe, including Germany, Poland, Romania and France, have demonstrated over so-called excessive bureaucracy, rising fuel costs and unfair competition resulting from the European Union’s liberal trade policies. There is.
The Belgian protests have spurred similar violence in France, where angry farmers have set up dozens of barricades, increasingly disrupting traffic around Paris and putting pressure on the government.
Searching for a way out of the crisis, French President Emmanuel Macron has told the European Commission that it is impossible to negotiate a trade deal with the Mercosur bloc.
On Monday, Belgian farmers blocked a highway in southern Belgium and parked their tractors near the EU parliament in Brussels.
Demonstrators will be barred from access to the country’s second-largest North Sea port for at least 36 hours from 14:00 CEST (13:00 Japan time), the newspaper reported, citing organizers and police. It added that the lockdown could continue until Wednesday night.
“Police have received information regarding the incident. Port of Zeebrugge” a Port Authority spokesperson said, adding it was unclear what the measure would entail.
On Tuesday morning, farmers blocked traffic on the E19 motorway near the Dutch border as a convoy of tractors headed toward the port city of Antwerp, state broadcaster RTBF said.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander Decroo is scheduled to meet with farmers’ groups on Tuesday.
In recent weeks, farmers across Europe, including Germany, Poland, Romania and France, have demonstrated over so-called excessive bureaucracy, rising fuel costs and unfair competition resulting from the European Union’s liberal trade policies. There is.
The Belgian protests have spurred similar violence in France, where angry farmers have set up dozens of barricades, increasingly disrupting traffic around Paris and putting pressure on the government.
Searching for a way out of the crisis, French President Emmanuel Macron has told the European Commission that it is impossible to negotiate a trade deal with the Mercosur bloc.
On Monday, Belgian farmers blocked a highway in southern Belgium and parked their tractors near the EU parliament in Brussels.