A delegation of farmers went to the headquarters of the European Commission in Rome to deliver a letter of demands.
In Italy, more than a thousand farmers gathered in the Italian capital this Thursday. It is the independent collective of farmers Agricultural committees (CRA), which organized this mobilization. In their sights are low wages, the price of diesel but also the green pact. Italian farmers have submitted a letter of demand to the European Commission office in Rome.
Giuseppe Convertini, is a farmer member of the CRA:
“_Farmers have no say in what is decided, they have no contractual power regarding prices or political choices that have been imposed from above. In the letter we just sent , we ask the European institutions not to interfere in Italian affairs.”
Other farmers decided to picket in front of Rome town hall. At the end of the day, hundreds of tractors burst into Rome’s largest ancient stadium, the Circo Massimo.
Giorgia Meloni had taken measures in particular by restoring tax exemptions suspended by her far-right government.
Faced with the upheaval in the agricultural sector in several European countries, Brussels had given up, before the European elections at the beginning of June.
The European Commission adopted a partial exemption for 2024 from fallow obligations, a key demand of the demonstrators, and abandoned a legislative project aimed at reducing the use of pesticides.