Belgian Farmers Renew Protests as EU Agriculture Ministers Meet

Belgian farmers have converged on Brussels for the second time in a month to protest unpopular European Union (EU) policies they say are putting them out of business. Like their counterparts elsewhere, Belgian farmers decry rising energy costs and cheap food imports from outside the EU that they say undercut local producers. “We’re here again in Brussels today because the EU isn’t listening to our demands,” Morgan Ody, general coordinator of a prominent farmers’ association, told Reuters. “We produce the food, but we don’t make a living—because of free trade agreements, deregulation, and because prices are below production costs,” she said....