16/12/2014 (Agence Europe) - New rural development programmes. On Tuesday 16 December, the European Commission approved six further rural development programmes for 2014-2020, worth a total of over €10 billion, more than €6 billion of which will come from the EU budget. The programmes are those of mainland Finland, mainland Portugal and the German regions of Sachsen and Sachsen-Anhalt (plus the German Rural Network). This means that 9 of the 118 programmes (or 22% of the EU rural...