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Minister tells road operators highways will close in extreme weather

Minister tells road operators highways will close in extreme weather

Vassilis Kikilias, minister of climate crisis and civil protection, informed road operators on Wednesday that the government will close highways if necessary due to extreme weather conditions.

“In order to avoid the situations and issues that we encountered in previous years, we will move forward with preventive movement bans, if and when necessary, in extreme weather events,” he said at meeting on strategies to handle significant snowfall.

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