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Greek Farmers Escalate Protests: ‘It’s A Struggle for Survival’

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KALAMATA, Greece, January 8, 2026 — “We’ve taken to the streets for 35 days now because the government won’t listen to our just demands,” said Kostas Apostolopoulos, an olive oil producer, in a January 6 interview outside this city on the southern part of the Greek mainland. “We don’t intend to give up. It’s a struggle for survival.” The protests here are part of a nationwide revolt by farmers and livestock breeders that began November 30. After nationwide conferences on January 4 and 7 of representatives of agricultural producers in Nikea, outside the city of Larissa in central Greece, farmers resolved to escalate their protests since the government is not meeting the farmers even part way.

Greek Farmers Revolt; Block Highways, Ports, Airports

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Since November 30, farmers and livestock breeders in Greece have been blockading highways, roads, border crossings, railway stations, and some ports and airports. They are demanding relief from the squeeze of low producer prices on the one hand and high costs of fuel, seeds, fertilizers, and equipment on the other. These are the largest such mobilizations in the country in more than a decade, and they show no signs of winding down.