"Farmers have been heard," David Clarinval, Belgium's agriculture minister, said last month after EU countries gave their nod to a recent proposal by the European Commission to relax environmental conditions in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) — the EU's billion euro agricultural subsidy.
But despite the council's swift approval, outside on the streets of Brussels protesting farmers clashed with the police as they voiced the...
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Piet Ruig is a Brussels-based journalist who previously worked for the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO.