Italian farmers also demonstrated

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, Italian farmers left for the country’s capital Rome with a convoy of tractors on Monday in protest against cumbersome economic regulations and the importation of cheap food products from outside the European Union.

According to Reuters news agency, another group of protesting Italian farmers also marched in the streets of Milan while dragging a cow with them.

Protesters from some of Italy’s main agricultural regions, such as Tuscany, left for the country’s capital in the form of a convoy and displayed the Italian flag and handwritten placards with various slogans such as “no farmers, no food” on their way.

The protesting farmers first gathered in the outskirts of Rome and will hold more protests in the coming days.

David Rossati, a farmer from The Tuscany region said: “We are going to go to Rome and face the country’s politicians to solve our problems.” In recent weeks, they have been protesting.

The focus of these protesting farmers’ complaints is that the import of food products is cheaper from areas outside the European Union such as North Africa, the increase in fuel prices and the effects of measures. In order to protect the environment and deal with climate change, the European Union has harmed their agricultural work.

In the past days, the intensity of protests by protesting farmers in France and Germany was higher than in other parts of Europe. But now the demonstrations in these two countries have subsided and it seems that farmers’ protests are intensifying in other parts of the European Union. Protesting farmers also blocked the road through the Belgium-Netherlands border crossing between the cities of Maastricht and Liège again on Monday.

In the city of Milan, which is known as the financial capital of Italy, a small group Some of the farmers also took a cow with them during the march in front of the Lombardy governor’s office.

Italian farmers also re-implemented an income tax relief plan that has been implemented for them since 2017, but They demanded that the Italian government put it aside in the 2024 budget law.

Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy, said during his visit to Japan on Monday that his country is more than a few neighbors. The other has supported farmers in the European Union.

During the last two or three weeks, protests by European Union farmers against climate policies have become widespread in countries such as Greece, Germany, Portugal, Poland, France and Belgium. Is; To the extent that last week even the French government was surprised by the blockade of Paris highways by tractors.

Protests of EU farmers also reached Brussels. Last Thursday, hundreds of tractors stopped in the center of this city and farmers threw eggs at the European Parliament after getting off their tractors. European farmers complain about unfair, unrealistic and economically unbearable future green policies, high costs and low incomes, and they blame the current situation on the import of food products, especially grains from Ukraine.

On Monday It was reported that widespread protests by farmers in European countries forced the European Commission to propose restrictions on agricultural imports from Ukraine.

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