Transport and Infrastructure Ministry

The Transport and Infrastructure Ministry has banned all trucks from using auxiliary highways and old national highway networks in a move it says is intended to increase safety and improve policing but which critics claim is aimed at raising revenues by forcing trucks to use toll roads.

A number of major airlines are asking the state to intervene and prevent non-necessary infrastructure works from going ahead at Thessaloniki's Makedonia Airport, as that would entail having to slash traffic considerably.

Croatian taxi drivers blocked roads and hindered access to airports in Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik on Friday, causing maximum inconvenience at the peak of the touristic season.