Southern Italy protests

Italy’s southern regions face empty supermarket shelves and plummeting fuel supplies due to transport and agriculture strikes against rising living costs.

Strikes block southern roads

Truck drivers from bari to palermo block roads to ports and highways for two weeks, denouncing fertilizer and fuel costs for tractors.

Agriculture manager's warning

Luigi di benedetto says fuel costs have become impossible to face for his community and the market is flooded with cheaper foreign imports.

“For us, and for the community, it’s become impossible to face the costs of fuel”