Furious farmers have clashed with riot cops, toppled statues and surrounded the European Union's Brussels headquarters today ahead of a key summit.Convoys with hundreds of angry agricultural workers driving heavy-duty tractors advanced toward the HQ, hell-bent on having their complaints about excessive costs, rules and bureaucracy heard by the bloc's leaders.After warming themselves at burning piles of pallets, the farmers this morning mounted their vehicles and entered the Belgian capital to the rumble of engines, fireworks and blaring horns, in the culmination of weeks of protests around the bloc.
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