Monday’s meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and a 15-member committee of farmers from the region of Thessaly in central Greece concluded without substantive answers regarding the timeline for compensating damages caused by last year’s floods, according to Rizos Maroudas, president of the United Federation of Agricultural Associations of Larissa.
The government has made significant effort to address farmers’ demands, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a meeting with union representatives from the central Thessaly region on Monday, characterizing many of these demands as “fair.”
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has presented flood protection proposals from Dutch experts for Greece’s central Thessaly plain to local officials, while playing down concerns about the possible abandonment of cotton farming.
The Tempe train crash will remain at the top of the political agenda for another week, as political parties submit their – divergent – findings to the parliamentary investigative committee, effectively agreeing that they disagree.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet representatives of Greek farmers on Monday in an effort to resolve long-standing problems of the agricultural sector that have been aggravated by the rising cost of production.
Some of the proposals for the reconstruction of Thessaly in central Greece by a Dutch team tasked with drafting a master plan, are being met with objections by locals, in particular one to ditch cotton crops.
Dutch experts have presented their proposals to the Greek government regarding flood protection management in the central province of Thessaly following last year’s calamitous floods.
Livestock farmers affected by last summer’s wildfires and September’s Storm Daniel in Thessaly, Fthiotida and Evros, will be able to claim compensation starting this week, Rural Development and Food Minister Lefteris Avgenakis said on Monday.
Minister of Rural Development and Food Lefteris Avgenakis analyzed the 19 proposals for the revision of the Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027 at a long inter-ministerial meeting held at the ministry to discuss the reconstruction of the flood-hit central Greek region of Thessaly.
Breaking the indiscriminate cycle of spraying fields with pesticides is the objective of a major 28-month research program involving the Agricultural University of Athens, the Hellenic Mediterranean University, the Hellenic Agricultural Organization, the Benaki Phytopathological Institute, the Aristotle University, the Democritus University of Thrace and the Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas (FORTH). Funded […]
Nine ministers of agriculture of the European People’s Party (EPP) issued a joint statement on Monday emphasizing the urgent need for structural solutions to problems that have arisen in the agricultural sector following the implementation of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Greece saw the second-highest increase in the price of olive oil since January 2023, with its 67 percent increase far above the European Union average of 50 percent, data from the EU’s statistics arm showed on Tuesday.
Cheesemaking newcomer Pantelis Panteli has become an unlikely bastion of an old tradition amid a bitter legal battle about the ingredients of Cyprus’s prized Halloumi. Should it be made from cow’s milk – which now forms the bulk of exports and has a mellower taste – or from tarter goat and ewe milk, which some purists swear by?
The European Parliament has approved a flagship law to restore nature, salvaging at least part of EU plans to protect the environment after farmers’ protests ignited a backlash.
The government remains committed to engaging in dialogue with the farmers, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis assured during his weekly review of government initiatives, shared on social media this Sunday.
Farmers from Florina and Western Macedonia protesting about soaring production costs and compensation payments will close Greece’s border crossing with North Macedonia for four hours on Monday.
