Greek farmers, taking a web page from the Canadian truckers’ protest handbook, say they’re decided to close down the nation’s main highways to protest rising vitality prices.
At a gathering south of the town of Larissa in central Greece, they selected Sunday to demand a gathering with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
With all of Europe going through rising vitality prices, Greek farmers are demanding subsidies to cut back their gas prices and an finish to the electrical energy value adjustment value, which displays modifications within the value of oil and pure gasoline imports.
Greece has among the many highest taxes on gas within the 27-nation European Union, accounting for about two-thirds of the value.
“Diesel prices about 1.60 euros ($2.3 Cdn) [per litre], whereas in different European international locations it’s 70 cents ($1 Cdn),” Asterios Tsikritsis, president of the farmers’ union within the city of Tirnavos, north of Larissa, instructed The Related Press.
Greek farmers have already been blocking a significant highway connecting Larissa to the town of Kozani to the northwest for about 10 days. On Sunday, they spilled milk on the highway as a part of their protest.
“At current, it’s questionable whether or not us and our flocks will survive,” stated Argiris Bairachtaris, president of the Tirnavos animal farmers’ union.