Farmers’ fury grows as government scrambles for response

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Agriculture, New Democracy, Regional policy
Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos
Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

Greece’s farmers are intensifying their mobilisation, choking highways and border crossings with tractors as anger over subsidies and systemic dysfunction boils over, prompting the government to search for ways to quell the protests.

What began as scattered blockades has now evolved into a coordinated campaign, stretching from Thessaly to Western Macedonia and threatening to paralyse key arteries of the country’s transport network.

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