In Photos: Europe Farmers Protest

Farmers are keeping up pressure on the French government and the EU leadership with scores of highway blockades, protesting higher energy prices, cheaper foreign competition that does not have to abide by strict EU rules, inflation, and climate change that either withered, flooded or burned crops.

A man throws an egg towards anti-riot police officers during a protest by farmers outside the European Parliament as European leaders meet for an EU summit in Brussels. European Union leaders meet in Brussels for a one day summit to discuss the revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027, including support for Ukraine.

Europe Farmers Protests | Photo: AP/Thomas Padilla

Farmers burn garbage and tyres during a protest outside the European Parliament as European leaders meet for an EU summit in Brussels.

Europe Farmers Protests | Photo: AP/Christophe Ena

A banner on a tractor reads "Macron answer!" on a blocked highway in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris. Protests have been held across the EU for most of the week and hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors arrived at European Union headquarters, bent on getting their complaints about excessive costs, rules and bureaucracy heard and fixed by EU leaders at a summit Thursday in Brussels, Belgium.

Europe Farmers Protests | Photo: AP/Thomas Padilla

Anti-riot police use water to disperse people during a protest by farmers outside the European Parliament as European leaders meet for an EU summit in Brussels.