Italy: to calm angry farmers, Meloni restores tax exemptions. Hundreds of tractors massed at the gates of Rome.
Similar protest movements took place in Germany at the end of December, then in France and elsewhere in Europe. Like their European colleagues, Italian breeders and growers oppose certain EU rules and competition deemed unfair with other countries such as Canada and Ukraine. The main beneficiary of the European recovery plan after the Covid-19 pandemic, Italy recently obtained an increase in aid intended for its agriculture.