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The Cyprus grain producers’ organisation has reaffirmed its commitment to defending farmers’ rights following a protest in Nicosia on Thursday. The demonstration formed part of a wider, continent-wide mobilisation against ...

Tractors were stationed line astern outside the presidential palace on Thursday as Cypriot farmers joined a continent-wide protest against planned changes to the European Union’s common agricultural policy and ...

Cyprus grain producers will mobilise tractors and rally outside Nicosia’s House of Europe next Thursday to protest revisions to the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP) framework. The organisation ...

Dozens of Greek farmers disrupted operations at the regional port of Volos on Wednesday as part of a nationwide demonstration to protest delays in farm aid payments and high production ...

Greek farmers continued their nationwide blockades on Tuesday, disrupting traffic along major motorways and intermittently closing border crossings to protest delays in farm aid payments. Farmers have deployed thousands of ...

Greek farmers disrupted traffic at border crossings and at an airport on the island of Crete on Monday, as well as blocking roads across the country, as they stepped up ...

Farmers are preparing to protest next Monday over the ongoing water shortage, demanding more be allocated to farmland. There will be two simultaneous protests taking place, one in Paphos and ...

The stalemate between the north’s ‘government’ and Turkish Cypriot farmers over a decision to import meat from the Netherlands continued on Monday, with a sixth consecutive working day of ...

Farmers on Monday blocked a border crossing between Poland and Germany, threw bottles at police in Brussels and gathered in Madrid to demand action on cheap supermarket prices and what ...

Greek farmers honked their tractor horns in front of parliament on Wednesday after spending the night in central Athens as their protest against rising fuel and production costs stretched into ...

Orange farmers staged a protest at the roundabout next to the Morphou bus station on Tuesday over a raft of problems hitting the north’s citrus industry. Protestors poured hundreds ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou is to hold weekly meetings with farmers’ unions with the aim of putting together a common policy document to submit to President Nikos Christodoulides by the ...

Cyprus’ farmers took to the streets on Thursday to protest, like the farmers in many European countries, against Brussels’ so-called climate-friendly policies they consider a big threat to their livelihoods. ...

Farmers protested on Thursday in Nicosia and Paphos, following suit with many of their European counterparts that have taken to the streets to air their concerns over EU Green policies. ...

Police in Nicosia are warning of traffic chaos on Thursday when farmers from across the island stage a protest with their tractors and other agricultural machines. Drivers have been urged ...

Farmers blocked the Dutch-Belgian border on Friday and occupied roads in Greece while their Polish peers announced plans to shut border crossings with Ukraine as protests for fairer prices and ...

Cypriot farmers plan to hit the streets in solidarity with their European counterparts, on Saturday in Paphos, and next Thursday in Nicosia, they warned on Friday. Farmers in Belgium, France, ...

Farmers threw eggs and stones at the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday, started fires near the building and set off fireworks as they demanded EU leaders do more to ...

In the last 12 months, the cost of running Jean-Marie Dirat’s lamb farm in southwest France has jumped by 35,000 euros ($38,000), driven up by increasingly expensive fertilisers, fuel, electricity and pesticides. ...

French and Belgian farmers set up dozens of blockades on highways and on access roads to a major container port on Wednesday to press governments to ease environmental rules and ...

Representatives of wheat and potato farmers left the agriculture minister’s office “satisfied” on Wednesday, after receiving assurances regarding support measures and an immediate €4.3 million in subsidies. They noted, however, ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Iole Damaskinos With hundreds of tractors and pickup trucks, farmers demonstrated in front of the EU House on Monday over the controversial nature bill currently being ...