MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Farmers from the central and northern regions of Greece are expected to take protests in opposition to tax increases to Athens, it was reported in the Greek media Monday.
"We will shut down the capital in the hope that finally someone will listen to us," Christos Gontias, the head of the Panhellenic Coordinating Committee of Farmers and Livestock Breeders, said, as quoted Greece’s Ekathimerini newspaper.
Gontias underlined the seriousness of the farmers' intentions.
In August, Greece's International creditors, including the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and some eurozone nations approved a third bailout package for debt-ridden Greece, worth 86 billion euros ($94.8 billion), in exchange for additional reforms and austerity measures such as pension cuts and tax hikes.
The Greek economy has been badly strained for several years amid the country’s multibillion debt accumulated after the 2008 world economic crisis.
