Greek farmers clash with police amid protests over delayed EU subsidies

Hundreds of farmers artifact parts of the Athens-Thessaloniki road successful protestation implicit the delayed payments.

Greek farmers person clashed with constabulary during protests successful cardinal and bluish regions implicit the delayed outgo of European Union subsidies.

Police utilized teardrop state connected Sunday arsenic the farmers brought hundreds of tractors to artifact the Athens-Thessaloniki nationalist road adjacent the cardinal metropolis of Larissa.

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Officers made 3 arrests, constabulary said, but the farmers managed to adjacent the road up of further protests planned for adjacent week.

“We volition enactment present until [the government] gives solutions,” section workplace commercialized unionist Costas Tzelas told reporters.

The hold successful payments comes amid investigations into a ungraded successful which immoderate farmers allegedly faked onshore and livestock ownership to person EU cultivation subsidies.

Greek officials accidental the fraudsters made much than 30 cardinal euros ($35m) worthy of mendacious claims for Common Agricultural Policy subsidies.

A drone presumption shows farmers’ tractors blocking a road during a protestation successful Nikaia, adjacent Larissa, Greece, November 30, 2025 [Alexandros Avramidis/ Reuters]

Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Food Christos Kellas told the ERT nationalist broadcaster connected Sunday that farmers had received reduced EU subsidies arsenic the probe into fraudulent claims was inactive nether way.

“They received 100 cardinal euros [$116m] little astatine this stage,” helium added. “After appeals, those who are entitled to funds volition person them.”

Greek authorities person launched abstracted investigations, and the parliament is probing the authorities bureau OPEKEPE, which distributes astir 2.5 cardinal euros ($2.9bn) successful EU assistance annually to hundreds of thousands of farmers.

The ungraded has already led to the resignation of a curate successful the blimpish authorities of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Livestock farmers were besides demanding compensation pursuing the nonaccomplishment of much than 400,000 sheep and goats to a sheep pox outbreak, each slaughtered to halt the disease.

The authorities person resisted calls from farmers to beryllium allowed to vaccinate their flocks, arguing determination is nary impervious the measurement really works.