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1. Protesting farmers gradually ease blockades ahead of meeting with PM

   Protesting farmers and breeders in several parts of mainland Greece gradually ease the road blockades on Friday ahead of the meeting with the prime minister in Athens on upcoming Tuesday, January 13, 2026. The government has said it would only meet with them only with the roads open. Several blocs of protesters have openrf highways […]

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2. Greek Police refutes reports of fully blocked traffic on highways due to farmers’ protests

   Greek Police on Thursday refuted media reports of fully blocked traffic on the country’s highways by protesting farmers saying that traffic has been redirected to other roads, and attaching press releases by local police departments about how circulation continues. “In regard to media reports being reproduced about farmers’ mobilizations, it should be noted that circulation at […]

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3. Taxi drivers in Athens & Attica on permanent strike as of Jan 13

   Taxi drivers in Athens and Attica will launch a “permanent strike” as of upcoming Tuesday, January 13, 2026, the president of their union SATA announced on Thursday. According to president Thymios Lymberopoulos, taxi drivers will carry out “repeated 48-hour strikes without a horizon of end”. “Every day we will have demonstrations on Kavalas Avenue until […]

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4. 40,000 chicken dead as tornado destroys large poultry farm, damages infrastructure in NW Greece

   A tornado in Kalpaki by Ioannina in north-western Greece, completely destroyed a large poultry farm, leaving 40,000 chicken dead. The tornado on Wednesday night completely leveled the walls of the three buildings of the farm that fell on the chicken and killed them. The  life of the family owning the poultry farm, the largest in […]

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5. UPDATE: Athens-Thessaloniki bus schedules cancelled due to roadblocks

   Fifty long-distance buses (KTEL) schedules running between Athens and Thessaloniki were cancelled on Thursday due to the complete blocking of roads by farmers and animal breeders, the Thessaloniki KTEL managers announced. Their decision followed information by the General Police Directorate of Thessaly that all alternative routes from Thessaloniki to Athens were blocked by protesting farmers. […]

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