Greece: tractors in Athens squares

by S. C.

Greece farmers blocked for few hours the streets and the squares of Athen.

More than 250 tractors arrived from Crete for a public protest.
It's not the first time Greece farmers decide to protest against goverment, also in past days 60 tractors blocked the main roads to the capital and at border crossings with Macedonia and Turkey.

Cretan producers are demanding a larger share of a proposed €500 million government support package to compensate growers for crop damage and falling commodity prices.
Producer prices for high-quality olive oil have fallen to about €1.80 a kilo from €3 last year.

Sotiris Hatzigakis, Greece’s farm development minister, on Monday presented the package in Brussels for approval by the European Commission.