{"id":183051,"date":"2025-12-14T07:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183051\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:41:10","slug":"greek-farmers-decline-meeting-with-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183051\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Farmers Decline Meeting with PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greek farmers have decided not to hold a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, following a nationwide assembly held in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tovima.com\/stories\/lentils-from-canada-while-ours-sit-in-storage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikaia, near the city of Larissa<\/a>. Instead, they will send a document outlining their demands to the prime minister and the relevant ministries, including lower prices for agricultural fuel, reduced energy costs and the restoration of subsidies to levels seen five years ago. Farmers also decided to step up their protests later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to Mitsotakis\u2019 invitation for talks, farmers said dialogue could take place only if the government first addresses their demands, otherwise describing the move as a public relations exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Representatuves from the Greeek farmes who spoke to reporters ahead of the meeting struck a hard line. Sokratis Aleiftiras, vice-president of the Larissa federation, said farmers were determined to submit their demands after the assembly and were awaiting \u201cclear answers\u201d from the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will enter into dialogue if \u2014 and only if \u2014 the conditions are right, meaning the prime minister provides answers to our demands. Otherwise, we consider this a government communications show,\u201d Aleiftiras said. \u201cThe government says it takes two to tango, that a meeting requires two sides, but Mr Mitsotakis acted unilaterally and scheduled the meeting on his own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the prime minister could intervene at any time to create a basis for talks, but said the government would need to demonstrate that it was genuinely seeking solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greek farmers have decided not to hold a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, following a nationwide assembly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,116040,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-183051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-greek-farmers","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}