A total of 1,500 ArecelorMittal employees from steel works in Liege (Belgium) and Florange (France) went to the European Parliament asking the EU to intervene to stop the closure of the sites and the 3,000 job losses that this will entail.
Access to parliament was barred by police, leading to clashes which left 14 injured, 12 of them in the ranks of the police.
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