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Jump to full article: Agence France Presse (AFP) (fr), 2008-04-17
Intro: Around 1,500 Greek tobacco growers marched in Athens Thursday in an opening protest against European Union subsidy cuts scheduled to kick off similar action around the continent.
The tobacco growers are opposed to a gradual reduction of E.U. subsidies that the bloc decided in a 2004 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
"The money belongs to those who watered the fields with their sweat for years, " read a banner carried by the protesters who marched on the Greek parliament and blocked the city center for hours.
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