Thessaloniki

The Public book and multimedia store has invited award-winning up-and-coming Australian writer Hannah Kent to speak with fans and sign books at its central Athens and Thessaloniki branches on Tuesday, February 19, and Wednesday, February 20, respectively. Kent is the author of best-selling novels "Burial Rites" (2013) and "The Good People" (2016).

MONDAY

Unionists representing farmers in Nikaia, central Greece, are preparing to set up a two-hour roadblock on the national highway linking Athens and Thessaloniki at the Platykambos junction, following a meeting on Monday.

The highway will be closed from 4.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.

It first appeared on the Thessaloniki waterfront in 1995 during the northern port city's Dimitria cultural festival, in the location now occupied by George Zongolopoulos's iconic Umbrellas sculpture.

Members of the union representing food delivery workers in Thessaloniki participated in a motorcade in the northern port city on Monday to protest the latest in a string of incidents involving physical and verbal abuse of staff by employers.

Greek basketball legend Panagiotis Giannakis high-fives a young fan in Thessaloniki's central Aristotelous Square ahead of the All Star Game basketball events at the city's Nick Galis Hall on the weekend. The events featured rising and former stars of the Greek Basketball League. [INTIME NEWS]

Farmers from Nikaia in northern Greece head south on Saturday to set up a roadblock at the tunnels on the national highway connecting Athens and Thessaloniki in Tempi as they escalated their protest action.

Unionists representing farmers in Nikaia, central Greece, who had closed off both lanes at the tunnels of Tempi valley on the Athens-Thessaloniki national motorway decided to withdraw their tractors on Saturday.

Dozens of newly arrived migrants and refugees in northern Greece are living in a makeshift camp near Thessaloniki's old railway station, where they have no access to basic facilities and services, the European Council on Refugees and Exiles said in a statement on Friday.

Farmers in northern Greece said on Tuesday they will escalate their protests and invited the ministers of agricultural development and growth and labor to a meeting to discuss their concerns.

Roadblocks have been set up on highways in the prefectures of Imathia, Pella, Pieria and Serres and that connecting Katerini and Thessaloniki.