More than 4,000 farmers staged a protest rally in downtown Athens on Tuesday noon. Farmers from all over Greece gathered outside the Ministry for Agricultural Development and marched towards the Greek Parliament. There, they wanted to hand out a list with their demands to the Parliament speaker.
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Strong police forces have been guarding the protest, while main roads were closed to traffic.
Some 600 Cretan farmers arrived on Tuesday morning to Piraeus port after their union managed a generous price reduction deal.
After a month-long protests with highway blockades farmers returned to the fields last week. However, they had promised to continue their struggle.
Among others they demand tax breaks, cheap fuel and electricity.
Greek government tries to satisfy some of farmers’ demands and promises subsidiaries, however the governments hands are tied out of fear more interest groups would launch similar protest actions.
