Representatives of protesting farmers on Monday said that they are unhappy with the government’s proposals on addressing their various issues and will announce how their protests will proceed on Tuesday.

Government representative Pavlos Marinakis said on Monday that the government’s resources are not “limitless, and thus no further measures are being planned.”

According to state-run broadcaster ERT, farmers attempted to make their way to the Ministry of Macedonia-Thrace in Thessaloniki in order to submit a resolution to be voted, but were stopped by police forces on the national highway and later decided to set up roadblocks elsewhere.

They also set up road blocks around the Egnatia Odos highway near the northern town of Serres, where the head of the Pan-Serres Agricultural Association, Diamantis Diamantopoulos, announced that they will “escalate” their “struggle.”

Farmers from many surrounding territories and regions also protested and set up road blocks in Thessaly’s town of Trikala.

Afflicted by a major storm last September, farmers have been calling on the government to compensate their loss of crops, livestock, and destroyed machinery, and to drain the many still-flooded farms and crop fields, before this year’s planting and growing season. They warned that failure to do so will result in a massive drop of agricultural goods production this year.

Farmers from across the EU also descended in front of the European Parliament in Brussels in order to protest their treatment by the bloc and their respective national governments.

Source: Ekathimerini.com