Key Bulgaria-Greece Checkpoint Remains Closed to Transit Trucks

World » SOUTHEAST EUROPE | February 14, 2016, Sunday // 11:32
Bulgaria: Key Bulgaria-Greece Checkpoint Remains Closed to Transit Trucks File photo, BGNES

The Bulgarian Interior Ministry has said that, as of 10:30 local time, the Kulata-Promachonas border crossing between Bulgaria and Greece is open to all traffic.

No information is available about the other major checkpoint at the Bulgarian-Greece border, Ilinden-Exochi, where movement of transit trucks has been restricted since 22:00 on Saturday.

The protest of Greek farmers is entering its fourth week, with demonstrators demanding that the government renounce its plans for reform to legislation on pensions and taxation.

As of 06:00 EET on Saturday, Bulgaria's border police authorities inform that "information about the traffic on [all border crossing points with Greece] will be received from the Press Office of the Ministry of Interior."

Separately, a 2-km queue of trucks was formed at the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing between Bulgaria and Turkey as of that hour.

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