Unhappy farmers unsettle Europe

TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FARMERS have taken to the streets across Europe in recent weeks to protest the combined effect of poor economic conditions created by falling incomes, high costs, ongoing disruption from the war in Ukraine, and competition from cheap imports. Their discontent is further fueled by the European Union's recent announcement of more-stringent environmental policies affecting agriculture, which they say will make things worse.

- ASTHA RAJVANSHI

On Feb. 1, farmers from Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, and Greece descended on Brussels, where they blocked roads, lit fires, and threw eggs at the European Parliament to demand that E.U. leaders do more to help.