Selb (Bavaria), 13/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - At a conference of the border regions of Eastern Bavaria, organised in Selb on 9 August on the initiative of the ministers of the Land for European Affairs, Reinhold Bocklet, the Economy, Otto Wiesheu, and Agriculture, Werner Schnappauf, the participants demanded "a substantial increase in the financial envelope" provided for in the action plan that the European Commission presented end-July to help the 23 border regions of the European Union...