Brussels, 21/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - Thanks to the compromise obtained with the EU Council of Ministers on implementation of voluntary modulation solely in the United Kingdom and Portugal, the budgets committee of the European Parliament decided, on Wednesday 21 March, to lift its reserve on 20% of funding intended for rural development programmes for the year 2007 (EUROPE 9389). The EP had taken this initiative at the end of 2006 as it felt that the initial proposal for voluntary...