Italian farmers with tractors gather on the outskirts of Rome to pressure the government to improve their working conditions. "We are going to march down to parliament I think on Thursday or Friday with tractors, in a convoy," says a farmer from Tuscany. Italy is one of a number of countries across Europe where farmers have staged weeks of demonstrations to demand lower fuel taxes, better prices for their products and an easing of EU environmental regulations that they say makes it more difficult to compete with cheaper foreign produce. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES