Photo: Andreas SOLARO / AFPSource: AFPPrime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with Italian farmers associations Friday after weeks of demonstrations across the country and promised to reinstate a limited tax break. Farmers have been staging small protests from Sicily to Turin, demanding action on a range of issues. Earlier Friday, the protests reached the centre of Rome, with tractors -- including one green, one white and one red, Italy's national colours -- taking a symbolic drive past the Colosseum. Farmers have been staging small protests from Sicily to Turin, demanding action on a range of issues. At Friday's roundtable with ministers and agricultural groups, including representatives of the protesters, she agreed to extend an income tax exemption for farmers in force since 2017.
