Farmers across Greece are attempting to ease holiday traffic by moving their tractors to the sides of national and provincial roads and keeping two lanes open wherever possible. Despite this,…
Another workplace fatality has been added to the long list of workers killed on the job, this time in Elassona, where a 59-year-old man died after falling from a roof…
The Greek Section of Amnesty International has expressed serious concern about the Ministry of National Defence’s draft law, the “Charter for the Transition of the Armed Forces to the New…
The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Dimitris Koutsoumbas, expressed support for the ongoing agricultural mobilisations, criticising the government’s attempts to portray the farmers’ blockades as a…
The president of the New Left, Alexis Charitsis, launched a strong attack on the government over the OPEKEPE scandal and its transfer to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE),…
Farmers and livestock breeders across the country continue their mobilisations and are moving towards new forms of protest. Today, depending on the strength of each blockade, symbolic closures of bypass…
Payments of farmers’ aid through OPEKEPE resulted in yet another fiasco yesterday, after ELGA made early deductions of insurance contributions before any aid had been credited. Thousands of beneficiaries logged…
The Panhellenic Committee on Blockades will meet tomorrow, Thursday, at 2pm in Lefkonas, Serres, to determine the next steps for farmers maintaining blockades at key points of the national road…
Farmers’ protests entered their seventeenth day with no sign of retreat, as producers demand substantive solutions on prices, subsidies and taxation. Although the government has issued another call for dialogue,…
Riot police deployed chemicals during the large agricultural and livestock rally taking place at Nikos Kazantzakis Airport in Heraklion, Crete. Farmers, beekeepers and fishermen protesting conditions in the primary sector…