Tractors throng Brussels as ministers meet on farm rules

Hundreds of tractors thronged streets around the EU’s headquarters in Brussels on Monday as ministers met to seek ways to streamline farming rules and red tape fueling protests around the bloc.

Police estimated that 900 tractors were clogging the European quarter of the Belgian capital — targeted for the second time in a month — with officers firing water cannon as farmers burned tyres and set off fireworks in the street.