A protester holds a picture of EU Commissioner for Agriculture Mariann Fischer-Boel as tobacco growers demonstrate outside a European Agriculture and Fishery Ministers Council in Brussels November 19, 2008. Europe's agriculture chief refused on Tuesday to bow to demands to prolong subsidies for tobacco growers as part of this week's farm reform talks, saying there were other solutions to cushion any financial pain. The sign reads"Mariann gravelyh shades our future" REUTERS/Sebastien Pirlet (BELGIUM)