European rural communities take the hemicycle of the European Parliament and call on the EU to strengthen rural development policies At the European Congress of rural areas involved in the LEADER rural development program on the 18th and 19th of December in Brussels, 800 representatives from 36 EU Member States Read more…
Here’s a look back at the last two days in Brussels, which were very full and rich in the sharing of knowledge and experience of LEADER at European level. Over 650 participants, 36 nationalities and more than 70 speakers attended the event. This is the first time ELARD has managed to organise Read more…
The day of the 2023 European LEADER congress will be available for streaming! If you unfortunately can’t be present at the congress, don’t panic! You can at least follow the day of Monday, December 18 by streaming: Webstreaming – Congrès Européen LEADER (leadercongress.eu) This day will consist of the introduction Read more…
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development has published a special report on the European Rural Development LEADER Program, entitled “Evaluation support study of the costs and benefits of the implementation of LEADER”, which stresses the importance and effectiveness of the implementation of this program in Europe. The Read more…
At the occasion of the start of the French Presidency of our network, we interviewed Thibaut Guignard, President of LEADER France and mayor of Ploeuc-L’Hermitage (Brittany, 4 103 inhabitants), freshly elected president. You’ve taken the presidency of the ELARD network through your presidency of LEADER France. What were your motivations to Read more…
What needs changing? Rural areas encounter a number of difficulties that were put aside for a long time, such as: a shutdown of public services, lagging behind in terms of economic development, a lesser access to culture, only to name a few. In 2022, the Commission came up with the Read more…
LEADER (Liaison Between Actions for the Development of the Rural Economy) is a European rural development programme. Created in 1991 as a complement to the first pillar of the CAP in order to support the transformation and diversification of rural areas, it is a cross-cutting axis to the second pillar. Read more…
The European Commission sets out a long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas up to 2040, which identifies different areas for action to make rural areas and communities stronger, more connected, more resilient and more prosperous. The invitation was issued in December 2021 by Vice-President Šuica (Democracy and Demography), Commissioner Read more…
The 2019 European Parliament elections saw the highest voter turnout in the last 25 years, with more than half of the EU population voting. This surge in votes has mainly strengthened pro-European parties. At the same time, there has been a worrying regression of democratic values, marked by growing autocratic Read more…
You may have heard about it this year. This movement, which originates from the massive depopulation of rural areas, mainly in Spain and Germany, aims to draw attention to regions left behind in national and European development policies, and in particular to the direct link with Eurosceptic electoral trends. On Read more…