Dozens of Italian farmers converged on the gates of Rome on Monday, hoping to be able to enter in large numbers in order to present their demands to the government. Around fifty tractors should reach the Roman ring road in the afternoon and park near Via Nomentana, an artery linking the heart of the capital.
Their intention is to stay there all week until a demonstration expected to bring together between 1,500 and 2,000 tractors on Friday. “We came to meet the Minister of Agriculture and ask him to open a permanent round table,” explained this 33-year-old cereal grower.