Protesting Greek farmers and livestock breeders blocked the Ionian Highway at Agios Dimitrios near Arta on Monday, after a rally and motorised tractor protest in the city. Traffic has been diverted ontot side roads while the farmers declared their determination to close the road “indefinitely” and said their road block was part of a nationwide farmers’ committee with which they were coordinating their actions.
Meanwhile, at a roadblock set up by farmers at the town of Louros, farmers were “organising to stay” according to the head of the Preveza farmers’s federation Spyros Klinakis.
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