Guide to farmers road blocks around Greece (see map)

Tractors are disrupting the flow of traffic around Greece

A meeting at of farmers representatives on Tuesday agreed upon 66 road blocks around Greece in protest against the social security reforms being tabled by Greek Parliament. They said that they would not enter dialogue with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras unless they receive a commitment that their rights would be protected.

A rally was also organized for 3 p.m. Thursday in Thessaloniki at the opening of the Agrotica fair to be attended by Rural Development and Food minister Vangelis Apostolou.

Road blocks on Wednesday are to take place from noon through to 3 p.m. at Tempi, ahead of a meeting to decide whether there will be more road closures in the afternoon.

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Central and West Macedonia will have mobilizationsPromahonas customs to the border between Greece and Bulgaria.

The Prefecture of Pieria will symbolically block roads with 800 tractors from 2 p.m. for an hour.

Kouloura, Imathia, will have a 400-tractor strong road block, shortly ahead of another gathering point of morethan 750 tractors at Niseliou on the Egnatia Highway from Thessaloniki-Veria.

The occupation that began on January 20 at the Kerdyllion Highway is still there and will organize closures from noon to 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the national highway of Thessaloniki-Kavala.

At Kilkis the block has over 450 tractors on the Thessaloniki-Pestritsios national highway. Meanwhile, more than 180 tractors have camped out at the Evzonon customs.

At the Prefecture of Pella there are blocks at the Servica Bridge at Giannitsa, Melissi and the Mandalos comb.

Thessaloniki has a number of blocks numbering 600 tractors at Derveni and Vasilika east of Thessaloniki from noon to 2 p.m. Since yesterday, there have been blocks at the “green lights” at the crossroads of the Macedonia airport.

Chalkidiki in Macedonia has three blocks in the area at the Gomatiou road at Ierissos, Nea Moudania and Nea Kallikrateia.

Malgara gates are blocked by 800 tractors that will close the toll gates from noon to 2 p.m. and from 6-9 p.m. with 100 tractors, trucks, taxis and tourist buses.

Kastoria and Florina will have blocks from noon to 1 p.m. and from 5-6 p.m. in the afternoon at the Krystallopigis customs at the Greek-Albanian border.

The Florina-Edessa national Highway is blocked at the Antigonou highway.