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Added on the 18/02/2023 07:00:57 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Hundreds of tractors block streets around the EU's headquarters in Brussels as ministers met to seek ways to streamline farming rules and red tape that have fuelled protests around the bloc. IMAGES
Protesting farmers set fire to tyres and block roads with their tractors on the sidelines of a meeting of European agriculture ministers in Brussels. Farmers across the continent have been protesting for weeks over what they say are excessively restrictive environmental rules, competition from cheap imports from outside the European Union and low incomes. IMAGES
The US Federal Reserve is prepared to raise interest rates higher -- and hold them there -- in order to bring down elevated inflation. "We are prepared to raise rates further if appropriate, and intend to hold policy at a restrictive level until we are confident that inflation is moving sustainably down toward our objective," says Jerome Powell in a central banking conference in Wyoming. SOUNDBITE
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, French president Emmanuel Macron, and Argentinian president Alberto Fernandez meet in Brussels where a EU-CELAC Summit takes place. IMAGES
Finance ministers from the 27 European Union member states meet in Brussels to discuss taxation, Europe's economic recovery and the budgets for 2024. IMAGES
The EU hikes its eurozone growth forecast for 2023 from 0.3 to 0.9 percent on the back of lower gas prices, with EU Commissioner for Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, announcing that the "EU economy is thus set to narrowly escape the technical recession that was projected back in autumn," at a conference in Brussels, Belgium. SOUNDBITE
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