Farmers protest to continue in Rome says Calvani - Politics. The leader of one of the groups of farmers who have been staging protests with their tractors said Saturday that a new protest will take place at Rome's Circus Maximus arena next Thursday.

   A handful of tractors went into central Rome on Friday, parading around the Colosseum, and a bigger protest was staged on the city's GRA motorway ring-road in the evening. The farmers' from another protest group, Ransom, are pondering their next move, although sources said they are reasonablesatisfied.