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Greek farmers stand ready to sep up new roadblocks on the country's borders after negotiations with the government have reached a deadlock, Bulgaria's public radio says.
As happened last year, farmers are resisting a hike in taxes and insurance contributions and are threatening to disrupt traffic through border crossings in the way they did last year unless their demands are heard, the BNR's Athens correspondent says.
Their protests will begin from January 23 if negotiations reach no breakthrough.
Last year, tourists and road haulage workers into and out of Greece were forced to wait for days on the main border crossings with Bulgaria, with businesses suffering losses and Bulgarian truckers staging a counter-blockade in response to the farmers.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that effective immediately, the US is pausing the issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers in the United States.
In a decisive move to alleviate the burden on European truck drivers and streamline border crossings, the European Parliament (EP) has called for the lifting of Schengen land border controls for Bulgaria and Romania by the end of 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family have left their home in the country's capital and shifted to a secret location after a large-scale protest opposing COVID vaccine mandates converged on Parliament Hill, media reports said on Saturday.
''Once the border was blocked by the representatives of certain political parties in Bulgaria, the Prime Minister called an emergency meeting at which it was decided unanimously that the law must be respected''.
PM Ognyan Gerdzhikov had an urgent sitting with the interior minister, the SANS chair and the chief prosecutor due to the complicated situation at the border checkpoints, blocked by protesters, announced from BNR.
Turkish authorities have launched a full-scale investigation after a shooting outside a building hosting the Israeli consulate in Istanbul left two attackers dead, one wounded, and several police officers injured
Fares for the Bucharest metro system are set to increase by 40 percent starting May 1, according to a draft regulation published by Romania’s Ministry of Transport and reported by Agerpres.
The United States is expanding shipments of liquefied natural gas to Southeast Europe and Ukraine via Greece, according to remarks by the US Ambassador to Athens, Kimberly Guilfoyle
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has formally requested that the immunity of 11 Greek members of parliament be lifted as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged misuse of EU agricultural subsidies
Greece has raised its minimum monthly wage to 920 euros as of today, marking an increase from the previous level of 882 euros, according to official information
Former Foreign Minister of North Macedonia, Bujar Osmani, has said that the current political trajectory in Skopje is the result of a broader balance of external and internal factors, including what he described as influence from anti-European forces and
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