Gov’t rejects blackmail by irate farmers

[InTime News]

As farmers announced an escalation of mobilizations on Tuesday, including blockades on the country's highways and a possible march to Athens next week, government sources said the window of a possible meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is still open on the condition that it will take place with open roads and without disrupting transport and the economy.

Sources told Kathimerini that the government showed "absolute goodwill" by making immediate concessions to the demands it considered justified, but in return farmers escalated mobilizations, which "does not help dialogue."

A meeting with the prime minister under blackmail through road closures will not take place, they stressed.

Another condition for talks to go ahead is that the government should know who it is talking to as the farmers' front is fragmented. 

As a government source told...

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