Police forces used chemicals to thwart an attempt on Monday by farmers to climb on to the E65 highway in Karditsa, Central Greece and set up a blockade.
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A group of about 50 far-right activists, their faces covered with black masks and carrying clubs, entered Syntagma metro station Sunday afternoon and started shouting anti-migrant slogans.
Demonstrators take part in a protest against the Russian strikes across cities of Ukraine and in solidarity with Iran’s anti-government movement, in Athens, Sunday.
Workers at municipal construction services announced on Friday that they will be holding a series of walkouts and strikes from January 23 through February 13.
The government called for calm Thursday after overnight unrest in an Athens neighborhood and an area outside Greece’s second-largest city in the north following the police shooting of a Roma teenager during a police chase.
Thousands of Greeks marched through central Athens on Thursday to mark the anniversary of a violently quashed student uprising in 1973 that helped topple the military junta which then ruled the country.
Eight people who clashed with police after a march through central Thessaloniki, northern Greece, against surging inflation on Wednesday will be led before a prosecutor on Thursday.
Greek workers went on a day-long strike on Wednesday, demanding higher wages to cope with surging inflation, as Europe’s soaring energy prices and living costs trigger industrial action and protests across the continent.
Dozens of student union members from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki were marching in the center of Thessaloniki on Thursday morning to protest the injury of a 19-year-old student who fell from the second floor window of the campus’ law school building.
Greece’s largest labor union GSEE will stage a 24-hour nationwide strike on November 9 to protest against soaring energy costs and rising prices.
The Belgian crew of Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe won the Acropolis Rally by 15 seconds on Sunday.
Belgian Thierry Neuville won the Super Special Stage of the 2022 Acropolis Rally, in front of a capacity crowd at the specially formed circuit in the Olympic Stadium of Athens on Thursday.
Women’s organizations and feminist groups rallied in Klafthmonos Square in central Athens on Tuesday evening to protest the murders of women by their partners or family members.
In view of the disruption, the vandalism and the rubbish left behind even by the smallest of marches in the city center, Athens mayor Kostas Bakoyannis has urged the ministers of interior and citizens’ protection, Makis Voridis and Takis Theodorikakos, to grant the municipality of the capital the right to license any demonstration or open-air gathering.
Metro trains ground to a halt and ships were docked in ports as thousands of workers joined May Day rallies in the Greek capital to protest against soaring energy and food prices.
Greek Civil Servants’ Union (ADEDY) is staging a rally with teachers’ unions at Propylaia, central Athens, at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, calling for an increased state budget for education, better wages and more hirings of permanent teachers.
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