TALLINN - Lights flashing, engines roaring, a hundred tractors turned heads and stopped traffic in Tallinn’s city centre when farmers from all over Estonia took to the streets to protest a lack of government aid to their struggling industry.
Vehicles more commonly accustomed to being in the fields were driven through Tallinn before being parked outside the salmon-pink House of Parliament at Toompea.
Once there, irate farmers from the dairy and pork sectors petitioned the government to help protect their industry with around 22 million euros in funding after...
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