Brussels, 17/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has approved the programme relating to Leader + for France, with an envelope, from 2001 to 2006, of 536 million euro (Community contribution: 268 million). The European Commissioner for Agriculture, Franz Fischler noted that this programme "is intended to pilot new ideas for developing a sustainable model of social economic and environmental development in rural France", in particular by contributing to the promotion of the use...