Twenty years after the first Cork Declaration (an initiative of Commissioner Franz Fischler) was adopted in 1996, a new version of the declaration on EU rural development policy was unveiled on Tuesday 6 September for the 333 participants at the conference in the same city of Cork.
“A Better Life in Rural Areas” is the title of the Cork Declaration 2.0 on rural development. Over the period from 2014 to 2020, rural development schemes will provide a total of €161 billion of public...