AGREEMENT ON FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2000 PROGRAMME.

The EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament have reached an agreement on the Culture 2000 programme, a new funding and programme cultural cooperation initiative. The deal was brokered on December 9 under the conciliation procedure. It was the programme budget that was causing all the ructions before it was finally agreed to set a total budget of Euro 167 million for the period from January 1, 2000...