The protest is planned for February ahead of and during the next EU summit, Jaan Sorra, the vice-president of the Central Union of Estonian Farmers, told reporters after a meeting with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė in Vilnius on Tuesday.
Andriejus Stancikas, the president of the Lithuanian Chamber of Agriculture, said that Baltic farmers would demand a level playing field with other EU member states.
"What we aim at are average payments and the shortest possible transition period. We are speaking about competitive conditions, not about the amount of money," he told reporters after the meeting with Grybauskaitė.
Stancikas told BNS earlier that around 100 farmers from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia would protest in Brussels to demand that EU payments to Baltic farmers be increased to the EU's average level.
Baltic farmers staged a protest in Brussels in late November, when EU leaders were discussing the issue of agricultural payments. It was proposed then that direct payments to Lithuanian farmers should reach at least 196 euros per hectare by 2020, more than proposed previously but less than demanded by farmers.
The November summit ended without agreement on the bloc's next seven-year budget. As a result, EU leaders will have to continue budget discussions during their next summit scheduled for February 7 to 8.
