Tens of thousands of striking workers took to the streets of Brussels to protest against rising costs of living. The nationwide strike has affected public transport including the airport in Brussels where many flights were cancelled.
Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports from the Belgian capital.
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URAAAAA!!!!!!!
This is the surefire results of what the EU nations and US that ganged up and tried to bully others.
Here in America we don’t get international news and that makes the people here very ignorant and it stresses me out
As a fellow American, I get none of my news from America except for my financial news.
Robert William@ to have news about what is happening follow The Duran.
Me too Rob, in Canada the various news channels use the same scripts, state-funded. I enjoy fishing around for news online now, that way you’ll be the first to know and act on it.
@ Citizen tv
They expected and wished all these to be happening in Russia and to Russian by now, BUUUUUUUT! 😬😬
@Р А dude, i love Russia. Im planning on studying there next year 😍😍 whats your advice, brother?
@VIỆTNAM🇻🇳 Start learning Russian. And choose a place to study focusing on your future profession, who would you like to work with
Dude Russia really played the world
@Р А i would like to study Linguistics in Kazan Federal University. Whats your thought bro?
@Р А I am Asian Canadian, long long fan of the great Mr. Putin. I have also thought about applying for PR status and live in Russia, I have to say the rrr vowel is a bit impossible for me 😂😅.
Don’t get me wrong I like a little protest myself but, at the end of the day, the governments not gonna come running out of parliament to change things are they.
…. If people go on a strike, companies must pay wages plus the suspension of activities. The example of the airport is very clear. It’s got shut down.
Belgian enjoy ur democracy paying the price of sanctions
With the backwardness of our economy, increment in the price of gas, alarming rates of unemployment. I must confess our country have taken a wrong turn. Vividly I don’t know how else to carter for my expenses.
Excuse me Sir/Madam
Are you saved?
If you died tonight are you going to heaven?
Jesus Jesus loves you
thank you for american support for ukraina. now we feel free from energy.
it becoming to free until boiler refuse to working 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Noogle Noodle
God has everything under control
Watch Perry stone
@Noogle Noodle 😂😂
It is riduculous that average people pay price for Ukraine war
This certainly isn’t being reported here in America.
Euro help war..
Stop wars & invest in Humans.
Enough people there to start a war with the rich and win? Peacful protest dont work, we must eat the rich!
Keep STRIKING !! COPENHAGEN, HAMBURG,VIENNA,STOCKHOLM,ROME,ATHENS….
Imagine how this impacts the dirt poor.
we’ve been impacted for years. it’s almost gratifying to see “the middle class” realise what a financial razor-edge they were on. I’m used to poor-person shopping, they’re going to get a shock.
The rich everywhere are causing suffering. It’s nearing time to just eat them…so life can go on to flourish!
Why do Europeans think striking is the solution to complex geopolitical and economic problems?
Because it is
Just wait for the winter to come….
The world is finally facing the problems of the fractional reserve monetary system. So much money is created without any fundamental plan, the money goes into speculative financial assets leaving no room for actual capital investments that would make wealth distribution smoother. Financial deregulation and the trickle down economics era is about end. The pressures are too much on all currencies, in this case even if the belgian authorities were to increase wage/salaries inflation will eat up that purchasing power the next minute, Spiraling down to doom 🤦🏾♂️
@Nathan Levesque The capital that is used to further purchase such assets can be diverted for building a sustainable world. The key idea is to stop inflating more bubbles, with a higher inflation rate people would not be able to survive even when resources aren’t that scarce. Artificial scarcity is a mechanism of capitalism which is not sustainable in the long term. Governments need to break that long held relationship with banks to actually start a reform
Do you mean the issue is on the excessive amount of Dollars created by the USA during these 2 years?
Or am I missing another financial thing?
@Kevin Feng Since the 1970’s after the collapse of the gold standard, USD being the global reserve currency without any backing ultimately leads to inflation. They have been literally printing it out of thin air, and is a system followed by all central banks. Whats happens when money not backed by any thing tangible proliferates?? you get bubbles which is the main product of USA currently, speculative bubbles which has a timeline.
@VoLcKEA1 right 😂😂
Europe needs to stop being socialist. That’s why everything’s expensive.
Russians will destroy many countries economy
It seems more of a carnival parade than protest march. Belgium for Belgians 🇧🇪 Prayers for victims of Nigeria Church attack and Afghanistan Sikh temple attack 🙏🏽💕
And you are not even from Belgium 😂
@শাশ্বত ঘোষ so ? 💀
Wait, can
you hear that? Puti is laughing and clapping his hands giddily
Nah, this isn’t the type of crisis that fosters authoritarianism.
Govt cannot implement wage hike coz it will be inflationary meaning prices will become more expensive once business hikes wages. Its a never ending spiral. What govt can do is provide subsidies and aid to the most vulnerable. Inflation rise is a global thing right nowm rich and poor countries suffers the same. Protests and strikes will only worsen the situation
End the Russian sanctions!!
Its just the beginning. Better stock up.
This is why i was always against sanction. It backfires, i can see the cost of food , water, electricity and fuel increased drastically. It os far better to arm ukraine without hurting your own economy and people.
@Ivan P. Ukraine doesn’t bring every civilian man to the front keep reading Russian propaganda mate, Ukraine’s mobilisation hasn’t been enacted in the way we expect mobilisation work, because there are so many volunteers that they can choose who to pick, like Ukrainian army turns away people w/o military experience because there are so many people eager to fight.
@Amalur Alure Its an artillery war now and frankly Ukraine will never be able to keep up unless the west steps up and provides tens of thousands of artillery shells a month.
@Amalur Alure how do you like 10,000+ troops encircled in sieverodonietsk?
Why the belgiums wants to feed obsessive bellies of hidden foreign terorrists goons in Germany who are stealing the weapons of Germany government and supplying to an Ukraine for creating more wars in between two brothers Russia and an Ukraine and also pressurising about Russia’s 🇷🇺 enforcement of gas sanction with an Europe and also feeding an above mentioned goons etc with Russia’s 🇷🇺 gas by sacrificials of an Ukrenians?
UK and Germany are the ones only hungry despite an Egypt 🇪🇬 ,Israel 🇮🇱 and Portugal 🇵🇹?
1:55 Distributing wealth? Thats no so democracy and capitalism afterall
Uhuh, the concept of redistribution of wealth can be described alternatively as tax the rich at a higher rate the corporate tax rate and close tax loopholes and the rest of society feel the pressure ease immediately, after all why should so few hold so much in a system that’s supposed to reward hard work? How come people working bare the brunt of the burden where as those with hereditary wealth and haven’t worked in generations make income from whom? Those who don’t have such a luxurious option should be taxed less as their effort is more however it seems the less you actually work the richer you are, look at the wealth distribution during the French Revolution and ask yourself if your comfortable with the situation being far far less equal because that’s where it’s at now
💯🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Play stupid sanctions get stupid life 😁
Imagine protesting over this lmao! In South Africa these would be violent. I hate my country.
No image of this protest march in BBC, CNN, FOX or France-24.
But these propaganda media fill columns with speculative information that no one cares about.
The Western People are hostage.
This is what happens when stupid people try to sanction the hand that feeds it.
This has nothing to do with war in Ukraine, that is an excuse jus like covid for failing fiat currency system of central bankers and printing money with no backing in gold!
Germany never does that . I Respekt Belgiens . Keep it up an very happy for this .
The proletariat is waking up
Western jokers lol.
The problem of eu is that it’s always short sighted, lacks of a long term strategy and a real political leader, its policies can be easily kidnapped by the us and a bunch of trouble maker countries.
@VoLcKEA1 Well I don’t see any Asian countries protesting due to high living cost, latin america neither, Africa neither.
I only see the countries sanctioning Russia having issues and protests
@Kevin Feng Of course things got more expensive bc of the sanctioning. It’s only logical. But that’s not the main problem. The main problem, everywhere, not just the west. It is wealth inequality. The very rick own all the wealth, that’s the problem. The working/middle class only gets scraps
And maybe it is more expensive to live here. But you can’t tell me the quality of life is higher anywhere else but Europe. Maybe new Zealand is better, but only them
Nothing against other countries, or at least their people. Not even Russians. But c’mon. Starting a war in 2022? That’s backwards behavior and doesn’t help anyone but the very rich
@VoLcKEA1 The issue you pointed is correct, however I think the EU could have managed sanctions better.
@Kevin Feng Definitely. But I guess that’s why we’re protesting.
It’ll never be perfect. Not in our lifetimes
With Ursula up there, nothing can go wrong right? 😒
They will still pay for what they did in congo.
NATO, US and Ucraina are the roots of worlwide inflation
Print tones of euros during lockdown,put embargo on commodities from Russia…..what can go wrong?Europe is leaded by clowns
Lol, Belgium can always go back to ripping of the congo
This will follow in all European countries. It is an indication of government failure by prioritizing war over their citizens wellbeing.
I hear some clapping sound from kremlin 🤣
😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Stop NeoNazi NATO
These dumbasses don’t realize how bad the unions themselves screw them (worse than government) w the payments they take from the workers each paycheck to be part of their mafia gang… If you’re smart you won’t ever join a union!! They are not what they appear to be!!!
These morons don’t understand how lucky they are with only 9% inflation, just like most Westerners…most countries in the world are experiencing double digit inflation & the current highest inflation rate is 170%
Perspective is everything
It looks like its RUSSIA sanctioning Europe🤣🤣🤣 lets wait for regime change.
BABYLON is fallen
China and third world countries use their money for economic recovery …… And the Western idiots use it to provide war funds!?
This is the Western version of democracy and peace …… !!! 😂😂😂😂
None of them protest the real cause. None
👍, inflation all over the world is all about actual control of the kabal.government officials all over the world are mostly stooges and selected ones.once prices are raised and sheeple react and protest then gradually wages are increased after accomplishing the goals.prices always increase first and eventually wages increae.and wages increase is technically printing more currency notes.it’s all about the control and grip 😁.
Entire world is so pathetic that almost all of the countries have no control on their banks and currency systems.this is and for countless things I never pay respect to anybody, because no body deserves it.
We need this worldwide because is the only way to stop evil globalisation
More Uprising in Europe soon 😃😃😃. God bless Russia 🙏
it will be even worse in the next winter for EU people.
Sanction Russia… and pay the consequences…. Make America Great Again
kill the rich
Workers should own and control the means of production.
Europe needs to elect leaders that won’t blindly follow USA into calamity after calamity
@Yurichtube 2014 little green men
@ckthegreat100 ‘killing them’ is hyperbole, and so is ‘mild inconvenience’. I would recommend videos by ‘Money & Macro’ for detail.
@Nathan Levesque Did you know Algeria broke relations with Spain because Spain followed a USA decision?
The decision was recognizing Western Sahara as part of Morocco,
Morocco told USA to recognize it so Morocco recognize Israel, USA did that,
Months later, Spain do the same thing, but now Algeria is upset by that decision.
That is “following USA into calamity”,
Now Spain need to calm Algeria down otherwise Algeria will also cut their gas pipeline to Spain.
That will never happen, Europe has no sovereignty.
Its time to move in country area and start caltivate food ourselves.thats a remedy.
disband NATO, only to make things difficult. only thought about war.
The whole world facing the Same price hikes problem. The prices of all daily useable things going to high day by day. how a man will survive in these conditions? The wages are still the same ..
The hilarious thing is that not producing and working in an inflationary environment is only making the problem worse.
It has begun, the entire EU is about to face demonstrations. Thanks for the sanctions USA and EU.
It is happened or will happen if your leaders are American puppet..EU is now the 51th state of America ,, but without right of vote…
This mess was already being implemated before the start of the war in Ukraine. It’s a lie that that’s the cause. ALSO: US was already preparing to deliver gas 3x the ‘usual’ price before this war-by-proxy started. Don’t let yourself be fooled!
Plus ca change
Plus c’est la meme chose
Well done we are use u
Dang,for me nordic and benelux countries are utopia,where people live happily and now this.
the result of sanctioning RUSSIA 🤣🤣🤣
Lol. Putin said that they would score their own goal with their sanctions.
oh people of Europe I assure you forget the past in forthcoming days prepare to habituate living under dreary conditions and face hazardous calamities awaiting for you. the war between Russia and Ukraine will not be end soon. I can bet very soon bound to spread all over Europe.
time to drink some vodka?
That’s how to support the freedomfighters.
based what eu do to bully russian. i think this is worth 😁😁😁😁
let’s continue until they begging us for a candy
Opportunists take the chance to increase their product’s prices in my country!! Double triple inflations!! 😡
Unnecessary sanctions are backfire. Lift sanctions and live peacefully in your territory. Pls don’t listen to comedian Joker Zelenesky.
STOP wasting our money in the Ukraine…
Vive la revolution
Sanctioning Russia backfires EU ,wait how long this will last maybe the EU leaders will realize the consequence of their action.
The Protests in Sri Lanka has triggered a global protest against governments. Power to the people
Stop Nato, stop following NATO blindly..
Government should focus and use the money for its civilians and not on US proxy war..
I’m in solidarity with them..
You elected stupid governants.
Wait for another 3-4 month to see the real results of the “ingenious” politics of Washington and EU against Russia.
This is because of the NATO’s price hikes..
When europeans really feel suffering of life, they won’t be active in supporting sanctions on Russia.
After all life is important
Were you wearing masks? This is now a grudge against each other!
The war in Ukraine has not impacted rising oil prices, but the EU imposed sanctions on Russia. Just get this point straight.
May it spread.
KENYA SHOULD DO THE SAME. PRICE OF THE BASIC COMMODITIES SKYROCKETING WHILE THE GOV’T SPENDS BILLIONS ON 2022 ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
Protest meant Trouble for EU . Thank YOU 22/6/2022 .
This Russia Ukraine war needs to end.
While americans only go out for gay pride , you will never see people protesting for serious daily problems ,as gas prices low wages , cost of life , crazy rent prices , half of american cant afford one bedroom apartement, but still no one protest ,
Those sanctions finally work 😂😂🤣
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Europe’s Russia sanctions show signs of success
Again… This is happening now All over the world. All these governments are in on the same criminal game. Wake up PEOPLE.
when the gold standard was cancelled by the US, how much money a governemnt can make basically just depended on how many printers they had. and since everything became digital, you dont even need to print it out anymore. So basically in western capitalism and free market of today, whoever controls the central bank controls peoples wealth. its kind of communism without socialism, but instead using the media to control peoples mind.