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The protests by farmers in Brussels are deepening despite concessions made by the European Commission. Yesterday's protest, the second in the past month, was marked by heightened tension, with protesters expressing significant dissatisfaction and actively seeking confrontation with law enforcement, reported by BNT.

Farmers have set up roadblocks, with the police responding with water cannon – The meeting of the 27 EU Agriculture Ministers is surrounded by a cluster of 900 tractors

Farmers are demanding a reduction in the increase in production costs.
As previously announced, with the invitation of the Union, the fourth largest agricultural organization in Spain, the farmers marched from the city square towards the Ministry of Agriculture.

From the start, the government had not decided on its stance toward the farmers. It handed out some benefits while making it clear, initially, that it would not hand out any more. Then, it paid out more benefits.

Thousands of farmers from across Greece descended on Athens' Syntagma Squar central square on Tuesday, parking their tractors before parliament in their biggest protest yet over rising costs and livelihoods destroyed by extreme weather.

We cannot give more, the Prime Minister made clear - Farmers from Crete have already arrived - After 11 the arrival of tractors at the two entrances - At 18:30 the rally at Syntagma

Police will implement emergency traffic measures as thousands of farmers from different parts of the country descend on the Greek capital in their tractors on Tuesday.

Thirty years after farmers first started blocking roads with their tractors, little has changed in the primary sector. Farmers are aging and their number is shrinking, good arable land remains relatively scarce and cooperatives exist mainly as a lever of pressure on the government of the time, while training is still lagging.

Despite the "no" Chrysochoidis, farmers insist that they will descend with tractors in the capital- "It is now necessary to give this great battle", stresses the president of the Union Federation of Agricultural Associations of Larissa

As farmers plan to descend on Athens on Tuesday, Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis has reportedly expressed his opposition that they do it with tractors, but is not against the use of cars and buses.