A gathering and protest by farmers took place at noon on Wednesday (14/2) in Tripoli.

According to arcadiaportal.gr, more than 150 farmers from Arcadia, Messinia, Laconia, Corinthia and Argolida flooded the streets around Independence Square with black flags.

The farmers, moved to the Region where they had a meeting with the Peloponnese regional governor Dimitris Ptochos. At the same time, they handed over their basic demands in writing.

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The resolution of the Coordinating Committee of the Peloponnese region’s Cattle Breeders’ Struggle had four points:

– Immediate payment of Community aid – greening, through ecological schemes, without excluding any farmer,
– Intense market controls to stop the illegal importation of milk and meat, in order to stop the downward trend of milk and meat,
Reduction of electricity and fuel prices,
A solution to the issue of farm workers.

Their mobilisation ended with a symbolic pouring of milk into a well outside the main entrance of the Peloponnese Region.