GREECE was brought to a standstill by strikes on trains, taxis and ferries today that coincided with the anniversary of a deadly rail crash a year ago.

Greece’s deadliest rail disaster killed 57 people, many of them university students, when a passenger train collided with an oncoming cargo train in the north. 

Public transport services in Athens were disrupted by the 24-hour strike, organised by Greece’s largest public-sector union ADEDY, to press demands to further dismantle wage controls imposed during the country’s 2010-18 financial crisis.