Tractorcade to head to Athens on Tuesday

Charging that the government "did not scrape the bottom of the barrel as it had promised," farmers on Thursday voted during a nationwide meeting in Nikaia in Larissa to continue their mobilizations and to descend on Athens on Tuesday with their tractors to hold a large-scale rally.

There will also be simultaneous mobilizations in many regions of Greece at the time of the rally as part of the effort to put further pressure on the government exactly one week after the meeting of their representatives with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

As they emphasized, none of their demands was met by the government, so they are determined to continue their mobilizations. For its part, the government announced that there is no more fiscal space for benefits to farmers.

"No convincing answer was given to our requests in the meeting with the prime minister," said Kostas...