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Farmers pour milk over barbed-wire barricades outside the EU institutions (Photo: EUobserver)

Milk farmers vent fury at militant demo in Brussels

Several thousand dairy farmers from across the continent on Monday drove their tractors to the heart of the European quarter in Brussels, where EU agriculture ministers were meeting informally to discuss a response to the crisis in the milk sector.

While the Schuman roundabout, home to the Council of Ministers building, was filled with black, acrid smoke from a pair of bonfires of straw-filled rubber tyres, agricultural vehicles draped in angry banners and flat-bed trucks bearing German...

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Farmers pour milk over barbed-wire barricades outside the EU institutions (Photo: EUobserver)

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