Farmers’ protests continue across Europe as tractors head to Antwerp port – as it happened

French milk producing farmers demonstrate with their tractors and cow statues in the colours of the French flag. Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters

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Summary of the day

• Farmers protested near the port of Antwerp, causing major disruptions in the area.

• Farmers staged a protest in Sofia today, calling for the resignation of Bulgaria’s minister for agriculture, Kiril Vatev.

• Nikolai Denkov, the Bulgarian prime minister, said that protesters’ demand for the minister’s resignation is not part of negotiations.

• The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, met with farmers’ representatives in Athens.

• The Greek government offered further concessions to farmers.

• The head of France’s biggest farming union said protests could resume if the government does not do more to meet demands for better pay and working conditions.

• Representatives of the agriculture sector shared their concerns at the session of the European parliament’s agriculture committee.

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The Bulgarian prime minister, Nikolai Denkov, said that protesters’ demand for the resignation of the country’s agriculture minister, Kiril Vatev, “is not a basis for negotiations,” Novinite reported.