Greek Farmers

The major changes and increases on the Greek tax system, as they were stated in the country’s third bailout agreement will begin in October, causing a tax storm for Greek citizens. Specifically, the deadline for the second installment payment of...

Amid the implementation of the new bailout's reforms, Greek farmers will continue to protest on the streets of Northern Greece until the September 20 Greek elections. The farmers had taken their tractors to the streets since Wednesday in protest against the additional farming taxes...

Farmers from northern Greece will be position themselves at polling stations to protest on election day, Sunday September 20, announced the head of the nationwide coordinating committee of farmers and stockbreeders Christos Gondias. Gondias spoke to the Athens-Macedonia News Agency,...

With Greece's third bailout deal officially in effect, Greek farmers are planning to express their grief on taxation and social security changes, starting on September 16. The members of the Panhellenic Coordinating Committee of Farmers, which is an umbrella organization of various farming associations and includes approximately 20,000...

The mound in Serres, northern Greece, which has suffered many blows this winter, could not bear the high water pressure and finally gave in, flooding the area's farmlands and sending local farmers into despair. The situation in Serres is quickly deteriorating,...

His belief that there are alternative solutions to liquidity problems in March expressed a senior Greek financial official just before the Government Council for Economic Policy meeting that was earlier concluded under the presidency of government Vice President Giannis Dragasakis....

Greece highly benefits from water buffalo farming, as the industry is gaining more and more ground, while products such as milk, yogurt or meat are getting increasingly popular across the country, providing a satisfactory income to the farmers. According to...

Greek peach farmers, who during the summer of 2014 suffered significant loses due to the Russian embargo imposed on European Union products, demanded a meeting with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, while they have already warned that if the 33-million-euro...

The compensation to Greek farmers and peach growers for the Russian embargo damages will be signed on Wednesday, Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras said during his visit to a modern cattle breeding unit in Sindos, Thessaloniki,...

Greek farmers have decided to launch mobilizations on November 1, with their participation in a protest rally called by the PAME labor union in downtown Athens' Syntagma Square, it was announced in a press conference held on Tuesday. They also warned...