LARISSA – Greek farmers, taking a web page from the Canadian truckers’ protest handbook, say they’re decided to close down all of the nation’s main highways to protest rising vitality prices.

At a gathering south of town of Larissa in central Greece, they determined Sunday to demand a gathering with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

As all of Europe is dealing with rising vitality prices, Greek farmers are demanding subsidies to scale back their gasoline prices and an finish to the electrical energy value adjustment value, which displays modifications within the value of oil and pure gasoline imports.

Greece has among the many highest taxes on gasoline within the 27-nation European Union, accounting for about two-thirds of the worth.

“Diesel prices about 1.60 euros (per liter), whereas in different European international locations it’s 70 cents,” Asterios Tsikritsis, president of the farmers’ union within the metropolis of Tirnavos, north of Larissa, advised The Related Press.

Greek farmers have already been blocking a serious street connecting Larissa to town of Kozani to the northwest for about ten days. On Sunday, they spilled milk on the street as a part of their protest.

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“At current, it’s questionable whether or not us and our flocks will survive,” mentioned Argiris Bairachtaris, president of the Tirnavos animal farmers’ union.