LIVE: Tractors Block Brussels Traffic as EU Summit Opens | European Farmers Protest Live | IN18L

LIVE: Tractors Block Brussels Traffic as EU Summit Opens | European Farmers Protest | CNBC TV18 Convoys with hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors created chaos outside the European Union’s headquarters on Thursday, demanding leaders at a summit provide relief from rising prices and bureaucracy. Farmers pelted police in Brussels with fireworks, eggs and beer bottles through thick smoke from burning bales of hay. Security forces used water cannons to douse fires and keep a farmer from felling a tree on the steps of the European Parliament. It is the culmination of weeks of protests around the bloc, whose farmers say it is becoming harder than ever to make a decent living as energy and fertiliser costs surge because of Russia’s war in Ukraine, more and cheaper farm imports make it hard to compete, and climate change-fuelled droughts, floods or fires destroy crops. #euparliament #europe #frenchfarmers #farmersprotest #cnbctv18 #germany #belgium #cnbctv18