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Frustrated farmers slam EU ‘technocrats’ who ‘call the shots’ in Brussels protest

BRUSSELS — Benoît Laqueue was one of 100 disgruntled French farmers on a bus headed for the European Parliament before sunrise on Wednesday.

The 58-year-old cattle and cereal farmer from the rural Ardennes region, in northeastern France, came with a message for the “technocrats” who “call the shots” in the European Union.

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