Farmers In France, Belgium, Step Up Their Protest Campaigns

FNSEA leader Arnaud Rousseau made it clear his members expected the government to go much further (Credit: AFP)

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal promised to do more to meet the demands of angry farmers, as the government mobilised 15,000 police and gendarmes to handle a threatened "siege" of Paris from Monday.

Farm workers in neighbouring Belgium, meanwhile, stepped up their own campaign of direct action, using tractors to block a key motorway junction.