Anton Medved

Several thousand farmers from around the country gathered in Ljubljana on 25 April for their second rally in a month to protest against environmental and other restrictions to farming. Many came with their tractors, causing traffic jams in the capital.

Prime Minister Robert Golob and other government officials received representatives of farmers on 3 April in the wake of tractor protests ten days ago. Having obtained assurances that their demands will be heard and that there will be no new taxes, the farmers decided to freeze their protest for three weeks.

Taking a page out of Dutch farmers' book, several thousand Slovenian farmers took to the streets with their tractors in more than two dozen cities and towns on 24 March in protest at environmental and other restrictions they say are making it near impossible to continue farming.

Gornja Radgona – Several organisations of farmers staged a protest on Wednesday against solutions contained in the draft national strategic plan for the implementation of the EU’s common agricultural policy, which involves a shift from direct payments to farmers towards the financing of rural development policy.