Thousands of farmers across Greece say they will remain at roadblocks through Christmas, demanding long-delayed payments and solutions to livestock disease and storm damage.

Agriculture Minister Konstantinos Tsiaras announced nearly €500 million in payments to farmers, along with a series of upcoming subsidies, compensation packages and energy support measures as the government seeks to ease pressure on the sector

Greek farmers escalate nationwide demonstrations, breaking police barricades at Promachonas and blocking Evzoni customs, while Crete faces planned port and airport disruptions amid rising tensions over agricultural support

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stresses government openness to farmers’ concerns while warning that extreme actions, such as blockades, hinder progress. Total agricultural payments will rise to €3.7 billion in 2025

Farmers entered a fourth day of blockades on major highways, vowing to intensify their push for concessions as truck and taxi owners join the widening protests.

Greece’s Minister for Citizen Protection urged farmers to continue protests without obstructing customs points or ports, stressing that demonstrations are constitutional but must not disrupt the country’s essential trade routes

Farmers across Greece are reinforcing roadblocks, blocking highways and border crossings, and planning new disruptions as they press the government to meet their demands, warning that mobilisations will intensify in the coming days

Protesting producers are demanding greater and faster state support, the latter in relation to delayed subsidies

Farmers across Greece stage road blockades over unpaid subsidies, sending messages to the government while tensions rise with authorities and new protests are planned nationwide

Greek farmer leader alleges he was attacked by a police officer, resulting in broken ribs during tense demonstrations at a major road junction

Farmers across Greece have blocked major highways with tractors, clashing with police as they demand solutions to mounting financial pressures and threaten wider shutdowns in the coming days

Protesters cite severe delays in payments owed by the agricultural payments agency OPEKEPE, along with soaring production costs and persistently low market prices for their goods.

The Ministry of Rural Development notes that this year’s subsidy advance is 25% lower than last year’s because it was calculated strictly on the basis of verified data.

Farmers and livestock breeders in two major regions plan coordinated road blockades and demonstrations, demanding overdue payments, lower production costs and stronger state support for the agricultural sector

Producers say low prices and rising costs leave them no choice as they prepare nationwide tractor demonstrations that may shut down key highways, even as overdue subsidies begin to be paid out

Greek farmers, who say their demands remain unmet, point to soaring production costs, which leave producers selling at extremely low prices, while consumer prices remain disproportionately high by the time goods reach supermarket shelves

Mitsotakis outlined plans on rising prices, housing support, farmer compensation, transport pressures, energy deals, and a sea-drone partnership with Ukraine

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis travels to Elefsina today for a public meeting, as his government faces mounting pressure from farmers over delayed subsidies and rising costs. The visit follows controversy over his recent exit from Alexandroupolis Airport

Farmers and livestock breeders from across Greece rallied in Athens and Thessaloniki on Tuesday, protesting rising costs, delayed payments, and a devastating sheep and goat pox outbreak that has led to the culling of more than 400,000 animals

Farmers across northern Greece block roads and clash with police as Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tours Rodopi, announcing diesel tax relief while facing growing anger over unpaid subsidies and livestock losses