Farmers unsatisfied with government measures

Representatives of protesting farmers on Monday said that they are unhappy with the government's proposals on addressing their various issues and will announce how their protests will proceed on Tuesday.

Following a visit by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to protesting farmers in Western Greece on Thursday, in which he assured them that the government will assist them "at the national and European level," farmers have said that the planned measures are not enough to resolve their problems.

Government representative Pavlos Marinakis said on Monday that the government's resources are not "limitless, and thus no further measures are being planned."

According to state-run broadcaster ERT, farmers attempted to make their way to the Ministry of Macedonia-Thrace in Thessaloniki in order to submit a resolution to be voted, but were stopped by police forces on the...

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