Government unsure how to deal with protesting farmers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

27% : The government also hopes that the public, which initially was favorable to the farmers, will begin to tire of their intransigence and the often extreme demands that would burden all taxpayers, such as an immediate doubling of farmers' pensions, guaranteed producer prices, abolition of VAT, cheap electricity, reversal of the move to transfer handling of subsidies to the tax authorities instead of the corrupt agency OPEKEPE - a move imposed by the European Union - and a reversal of tariff-free imports from countries that have signed trade deals with the EU.

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