11/09/2015 (Agence Europe) - Approval of French national programme for rural development. On Tuesday 8 September, the European Commission adopted France's 2014-2020 national rural development programme, which has been allocated €614 million (€607.8 million from the EU budget and €6.2 million from national counterparts). A 98% share of this funding will go to support the use of risk management instruments by farms (harvest insurance, participation in mutual funds). The remaining 2% will...