Farmers take tractors to Vatican, urge pope to speak for them. Italian farmers protesting Italian and EU policies, high fuel costs, the low prices their products fetch and general hardship.
The farmers also brought their cow Ercolina, a symbol of their protest, which they had also brought to the recent Sanremo Song Festival. Last week one group of farmers involved in the protests in Italy said they would be standing down their 'garrison' of farmers in Rome after Meloni's government promised measures to help them.