抗议紧缩措施和预算削减，布鲁塞尔，2026年10月9日。10月9日星期五在布鲁塞尔表达的愤怒难以用一句话概括，各个年龄段和背景的示威者走上街头。铁路工人、教师、大学生和中学生、难民倡导团体、艺术家、公务员——据警方估计有3万人，据工会称有5万人——游行穿过比利时首都，抗议巴特·德韦弗政府的社会经济政策。由于政府将于10月13日公布预算，示威者意在让他们的声音被听到。
Protest against austerity measures and budget cuts, in Brussels, October 9, 2026. The anger expressed in Brussels on Friday, October 9, was difficult to sum up in a single sentence, with demonstrators of all ages and backgrounds taking to the streets. Railway workers, teachers, university and secondary school students, refugee advocacy groups, artists, civil servants – 30,000 people according to police estimates, and 50,000 according to unions – marched through the Belgian capital to protest the socio-economic policies of Bart De Wever's government. With the government set to unveil its budget on October 13, demonstrators intended to make their voices heard.
俯瞰阿尔贝蒂娜广场，距离中央火车站仅几步之遥，莱昂·蓬桑惊叹地看着这场“斗争的大汇聚”。“让我惊讶的不是参与人数，而是参与群体的多样性，”这位七十多岁的退休公务员说，他自豪地穿着一件“愤怒的老家伙帮”的马甲，该组织八年前为回应时任养老金部长、右翼的丹尼尔·巴克莱纳推动的养老金改革而成立。“今天我们面对的是一个越来越转向极右翼的政府，我不知道谁能接受这一点，”他总结道。
Overlooking Place de l'Albertine, just steps from the central train station, Léon Poncin watched the "coming together of struggles" with amazement. "It's not so much the number of participants that surprises me, but the diversity of groups involved," said the 70-something retired civil servant, who proudly wore a vest from the "angry old folks gang," a collective founded eight years ago in response to the pension reform pushed by the then-pensions minister, the right-wing Daniel Bacquelaine. "Today we're faced with a government that's turning more and more to the far right, and I don't know who can accept that," he summed up.