Brussels, 20/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 20 December, the European Commission announced that it had approved the 2007-2009 rural development programmes for Turkey, Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYRM). The IPARD rural development programme chimes perfectly with the Multi-annual Indicative Planning Document (MIPD) and other strategic documents on the candidate countries' accession process.
Turkey. Total eligible public expenditure amounts to €212 million...