[Blog] Belgium: Fire-fighters surround and block centre of Brussels
They surprised everyone, in particular the government that was meeting to discuss the new budget cuts. Fed up with meaningless promises and angered by the dangerously low staff levels, fire-fighters from the south of Belgium and Brussels decided to go for it. Unannounced, a few hundred fire-fighters with some 30 trucks parked themselves outside the Prime Minister’s office and the Belgian parliament... and then the fun began!