Brussels, 16/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - Commissioner Franz Fischler has recently written to Agriculture Ministers of the east and central European candidate countries to get them to spend more of the loans they were granted for the period 2000-2003 in the special pre-accession programme aid for agriculture and rural development (SAPARD). If progress is not rapidly achieved in this area, candidate countries risk losing part of the funding, warned Mr Fischler, who addressed a copy of the letter...