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A large crowd of Greek farmers demonstrate on Syntagma Square in central Athens to demand financial aid, escalating a four-week showdown with a government that says it has no more funds to help. Farmers began protesting last month, joining a wider movement that has seen roads blocked in France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain, among other countries. IMAGES
Tractors continued to block the A6 motorway at Chilly-Mazarin, some ten kilometres (6 miles) from Rungis wholesale food market, Paris' key food supply hub. Farmers union Coordination Rurale who had called for the blockade, now sent out the directive to go "towards the National Assembly" in Paris instead. IMAGES
French Economy Minister, Bruno Le Maire, and Agriculture Minister, Marc Fesneau, chair a committee to monitor the trade negotiations between supermarkets and their suppliers, which are intended to protect producers' incomes, against a backdrop of strong mobilisation by farmers across France. IMAGES
"They look after farmers when we are protesting, and then they forget about us", Pascal Foucault, vice-president of the French national farmers union FDSEA in the northern department of Oise, bemoans as farmers block access to several motorways in France for the sixth day. The mobilisation of farmers in France continues in the wake of a meeting with Gabriel Attal's cabinet and the opening of a meeting of European ministers in the sector. SOUNDBITE
Hundreds of tractors line the streets around the European Parliament in Strasbourg to denounce the new Common Agriculture Policy. European aid is set to take a more agro-ecological direction in 2023. IMAGES
Hundreds of tractors block traffic on a stretch of motorway leading to Strasbourg and the European Parliament, to denounce the new Common Agriculture Policy, which will see European aid used for more agro-ecological purposes. IMAGES