Brussels, 25/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 24 November, the European Parliament's agriculture committee approved draft legislation to temporarily increase the maximum EU co-financing for rural development programmes for member states receiving bailouts from the European Financial Stability Mechanism (Greece, Ireland and Portugal) and the Balance of Payments Mechanism (Romania and Lativa).
Adopting a report on the matter by Paolo de Castro (S&D, Italy), the MEPs backed the idea of...