Farmers on Tuesday at 10:00 closed with their tractors the Athens-Thessaloniki motorway at Tempi Valley. The blocking of Tempi will last until 22:00.

The negotiations between the government and the institutions continue for a second day. The first meeting between Labour Minister George Katrougalos and the heads of the institutions is underway at the Labour ministry.

Greece has been hauled before the European Court of Justice again for disregarding environmental protection regulations, this time over the absence of measures to protect the loggerhead sea turtles in the Bay of Kyparissia in the southwestern Peloponnese, in a case that dates back to 2012, when the country was given its first warning from the European Commission.