Tractors blockaded roads around the EU’s headquarters in Brussels on Monday as ministers met to discuss ways of cutting the red tape fuelling farmers’ protests around Europe. An estimated 900 tractors brought the city’s European quarter to a standstill for the second time in a month. Farmers lit fireworks, burned tyres, hurled eggs and sprayed manure on police, who used water cannon and tear gas in response. Farmers say they’re angry about burdensome regulations and cheap imports, particularly from Ukraine, as well as falling incomes from agricultural produce. They point to free trade deals, s…