More than
5,000 demonstrators have staged a mass protest outside the EU
headquarters in Brussels against the controversial European Union
deals with Washington and Canada.
Police said
on Tuesday that the protesters had gathered to express anger at the
planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with
the United States, and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
(CETA) with Canada.
The angry
demonstrators chanted slogans against the deals holding placards
reading, "TTIP, CETA, we don't want them."
"We are
sure to be the big losers. This will be a shock to agriculture,"
AFP quoted Stephane Delogne, a farmer, attending the demonstration.
Local trade
unions, environmental groups and farmers called for European leaders
to halt the upcoming talks with Washington on the deal.
Police
helicopters hovered overhead in the area and most of the main avenues
around the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, were closed
to traffic.
Also on
Tuesday, Greenpeace activists held a protest in front of the US
mission in the Swiss city of Geneva against the TTIP.
On September
17, similar mass protests were held in Germany against the TTIP and
CETA.
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