Farmers on Full Alert: 4,000 Tractors and Blocked Highways Across Greece

Rural anger is taking shape on the asphalt. From Larissa to Crete, thousands of producers remain determined to intensify their mobilizations, ignoring government warnings about “extreme forms of protest.”

At the Nikaia junction, 4,000 tractors are lined up, with reinforcements expected along the E65 highway in Karditsa and at the Loggos toll station in Trikala. On the Athens–Thessaloniki highway, the Mikróthives blockade and those in Boeotia and Phthiotis underscore the farmers’ resolve.

The strategy of the farmers is clear: maintaining blockades indefinitely until their key demands are met. Central demands include immediate payment of subsidies and compensation, establishment of guaranteed minimum prices, drastic reduction of production costs, and a full overhaul of the ELGA insurance system.

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Meanwhile, coordination among agricultural associations continues, aiming for nationwide synchronization of protests. The upcoming meeting of the Panhellenic Committee of Blockades will determine the pace and intensity of escalation, with likely actions including port and airport blockades, already being prepared in Volos, Ioannina, and Heraklion.

In Crete, the Coordinating Committee of farmers and livestock breeders has decided on an indefinite blockade of Heraklion Airport, with participation from producers in Lasithi, emphasizing that “the government’s mockery has exceeded all limits of tolerance.”

From a para-political perspective, this move presents the government with a dual dilemma: either pressure-driven dialogue and concessions on key demands, or escalation of enforcement with political cost, while simultaneously reinforcing the image of farmers as a coordinated nationwide political actor capable of disrupting infrastructure and social order.

The battle on the roads is not just agricultural—it is a harbinger of a broader social confrontation that will shape the next political chapter in Greece.

Source: pagenews.gr