Brussels, 26/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - Nine Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) candidates for EU membership now dispose of the "rural development programmes" co-funded by the EU under the Sapard programme (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.10). It is a question of all candidate Ceecs except for Romania. The programmes for Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Latvia and Bulgaria were approved by the Star Committee early-September; those for Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia were...