Salzburg, 13/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - During the conference on rural development that took place on Thursday and Friday in Salzburg, in Austria, the Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler invited participants to develop tough guidelines on the content, financing and means for the simplification of this policy for the next programming period, which should begin in 2007. Rural development policy is well established, but it will have to prove itself after the reform of the Common...