The World - News from April 13, 1986
Thousands of West German farmers, marching against Common Market agriculture policies in dozens of protests around the country, blocked Danish and Austrian border crossings with tractors and converged on market towns. The farmers were pressing demands for a 4.7% rise in price guarantees this year as against the freeze or cut that the European Commission in Brussels, the European Communities’ administrative arm, is proposing in an effort to reduce growing stocks of surplus food.
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