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🇧🇪 Farmer protests escalate in Brussels amid EU-Mercosur trade talks Protests by farmers have continued in Brussels, with turnout far exceeding what authorities had approved. Brussels police said they had authorized a demonstration involving up to 50 tractors, but by the end of the day, around 1,000 tractors, mostly...

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