‘Consensus’ offer made to angry farmers

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a package of measures on Friday to further support farmers, aiming to end escalating agricultural mobilizations and roadblocks.

Addressing Parliament, Mitsotakis referred to an extension of the implementation of the measure of the refund of the special consumption tax on oil for the current year, at a cost of 82 million euros, as well as the Public Power Corporation (PPC) offer of an additional 10% discount on rural electricity, from May to September - "i.e. the months of high consumption."

"We have a series of interventions that we must make to support farmers who are rightly complaining," Mitsotakis said, noting at the same time that "the problems facing the primary sector are issues of national importance, which do not lend themselves so much to arguments, but rather to consensus. I choose joint effectiveness over...