Tractors Converge on Athens as Greek Farmers Join Burgeoning Protest Movement

Polish farmers are also ramping up protests against the influx of duty-free grain imported from neighboring Ukraine.

Greek farmers take part in a protest to demand financial aid in front of the Parliament in Athens on Feb. 20, 2024. Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images

Greek farmers converged on Athens on Feb. 20 to protest mounting energy costs and European Union trade policies that they say are leaving them unable to maintain their businesses.

“There are many problems, most of all, fuel and energy costs,” one protesting farmer in the Greek town of Kastro, some 75 miles north of Athens, told Reuters.