At 07:45 in the morning, the Olympic Flame for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics began its journey to the Kallimarmaro Stadium from the Acropolis, where the previous night the altar had been lit by Olympic rowing gold medalist Stefanos Duskos.
Every day, the network of farmers' blockades across Greece grows wider. Yesterday, farmers from Trikala set up a blockade on the E65 motorway at the Longos toll station — the second blockade on the E65, following the one in Karditsa. Together with the blockade in Larissa, more than 4,000 tractors are now on the roads in Thessaly.
The PPC employee who stopped the large vehicle carrying 25 workers bound for the PPC Steam Power Plant in Agios Dimitrios spoke about the moments that unfolded when he had to grab the steering wheel of the bus in Ptolemaida when it started hitting the barriers after the driver suffered a seizure.