Parliament on Syntagma

Some 2,000 disgruntled farmers arrived in Athens on Tuesday to protest tax and social security hikes, but desisted from driving their tractors and pick-up trucks into the city center as some had suggested would happen last week.

A massive farmers’ protest has been scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Syntagma square with farmers from Crete having already arrived in Athens while farmers from other regions and 65 blockades around the country heading to the capital.

Meanwhile, the police have set up their own road blocks across the national high ways to prevent farmers from driving their tractors to Athens.