{"id":2302,"date":"2025-12-18T18:27:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/farmers-block-roads-in-brussels-to-protest-south-american-free-trade-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:27:53","slug":"farmers-block-roads-in-brussels-to-protest-south-american-free-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/farmers-block-roads-in-brussels-to-protest-south-american-free-trade-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers block roads in Brussels to protest South American free-trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Police officers stand guard near tractors, as farmers protest against the EU-Mercosur free-trade deal between the European Union and the South American countries of Mercosur, on the day of a European Union leaders&#8217; summit, in Brussels, Belgium, December 18, 2025.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">YVES HERMAN \/ REUTERS<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Farmers in tractors blocked roads and set off fireworks in Brussels on Wednesday, December 17, outside a European Union leaders&#8217; summit, prompting police to respond with tear gas and water cannon as protesters rallied against a major free-trade deal with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/economy\/article\/2025\/12\/18\/farmers-block-roads-in-brussels-to-protest-south-american-free-trade-deal_6748625_19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers stand guard near tractors, as farmers protest against the EU-Mercosur free-trade deal between the European Union and the South American countries of Mercosur, on the day of a European Union leaders&#8217; summit, in Brussels, Belgium, December 18, 2025. YVES HERMAN \/ REUTERS Farmers in tractors blocked roads and set off fireworks in Brussels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-finance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}