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Thousands protest in Brussels over cost of living crisis
Euronews ^ | 9-21-22 | Méabh Mc Mahon

Posted on 09/21/2022 2:00:41 PM PDT by dynachrome

Rising food prices, startling energy bills, and frustration with politicians and employers brought 10,000 people to the streets of Brussels on Wednesday.

Dressed in green, blue and red, the colours of the three main unions – the anger was palpable as they gathered in the city centre.

Protestors told Euronews they want local, national and European politicians to react now and take immediate measures to help them with the financial burden of the crisis.

They say the responsibility lies with national politicians to address the matters now and not to blame geopolitics.

"I have been working for the past 23 years and now is the first time I am having real difficulties to survive," Ludovic from Brussels told Euronews.

(Excerpt) Read more at euronews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belgium; bidensanctions; costofliving; gas; protests; putin; russia; sanctions
And winter hasn't started yet.
1 posted on 09/21/2022 2:00:42 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Protests in Brussels are sprouting all over


2 posted on 09/21/2022 2:01:55 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: dynachrome

Brussels. They made their own bed.


3 posted on 09/21/2022 2:03:36 PM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: chajin

Meanwhile, Belgium waffles.


4 posted on 09/21/2022 2:31:02 PM PDT by Migraine ( )
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To: fwdude

Brussels. They made their own bed.…
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Putin has won, outsmarted the corrupted western leadership with his reverse sanctions. He has succeeded in crippling the EU and West’s economy, and has forged the new world’s superpower block, China, Russia, India….

Thanks vegetable head and your war cheerleaders.Much, much more economic and financial pain dead ahead for the West.


5 posted on 09/21/2022 2:35:01 PM PDT by delta7
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To: dynachrome

How is that sanction war with Russia and those green energy policies working out for the EU?


6 posted on 09/21/2022 2:35:43 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: dynachrome

And not just Brussells. Prague, Germany, Italy.


7 posted on 09/21/2022 2:39:20 PM PDT by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: dynachrome

They need to build more windmills.


8 posted on 09/21/2022 2:58:09 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: chajin

I don’t like them. You can’t make me like them.


9 posted on 09/21/2022 3:01:51 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Euroweenies ....


10 posted on 09/21/2022 3:47:20 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: dynachrome

PLEASE!!!! The Neocons here only permit anti-Putin protests in Russia being reported on FR.


11 posted on 09/21/2022 7:55:11 PM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 42 degrees)
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