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Protesting farmers and cattle farmers decided on Wednesday to close the Evzoni border crossing between Greece and FYROM until at least February 3, following a meeting of the coordinating committee of Central Macedonia. 

Farmers throughout the country took to the roads with their tractors on Wednesday and made preparations to escalate protest action in the coming days. Among others, farmers are demanding that the government roll back new measures increasing their taxes and social insurance contributions. 

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras launched a vocal defence of the plan in parliament, saying that the country had no choice but to reform a pension system which had created chronic deficits and would collapse if left unchanged.