Farmers escalate protests

Meanwhile, the Athens-Corinth motorway as well as the Athens-Corinth old national road at Corinth Canal is blocked indefinitely by protesting farmers. Long queues of vehicles were reported on Wednesday on both sides of the Greek-Bulgarian borders at Promachonas as a result of the farmers' blockade.
According to police estimates, over 800 trucks and 160 cars remain trapped on the Greek territory while on the other side of the border at Kulata, Bulgaria, 1,000 trucks and 500 cars are waiting to cross the border and enter Greece.
Meanwhile, Bulgaria asked again the European Union to assist to the suspension of farmers blocking at Promachonas.

Since yesterday, the farmers at the roadblock of Mikrothives, near the city of Volos in central Greece, announced they will close the main Athens-Thessaloniki motorway for several hours each day as of Wednesday, as they continue to escalate their protests against the government’s proposed social security and pension reforms.
They said the blockade will include the side roads which were used by drivers to bypass the main road, as well as the old motorway connecting the capital with Thessaloniki.