The EU figures show 66 regions received both of these funding streams, not including French regions in South America and the Caribbean.
High-speed trains between Paris and other French regions were also restored.
The company also owns interests in 20 refineries scattered across Europe, the United States, China, and the French-speaking regions of Africa and the Caribbean and operates a network of nearly 15, 000 gas stations.
Although French farmers in some regions have developed a reputation as being wary of outsiders, the divide is easier to breach than imagined.
But during the campaign he stressed other matters: alone among the candidates he has experience of government, speaks half-decent French and has lived in all regions of Canada.
France: It has offered a wide range of supplies and services from its mainland and the French Antilles, relatively close to the affected regions.
"The more I visited vineyards on my travels and got to know the wine growers and the regions, the more disillusioned I became with French wine, " he says.
Critics say the opening of the market will harm banana producers in the outermost regions of the EU, such as the French dependencies of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.
Concerns have been raised by banana growers in the EU's outermost regions - namely the Canary Islands and the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean - that they will lose out to cheaper imports from Colombia and Peru.
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Yves Leterme's initial efforts to form a coalition had foundered because he failed to persuade the French-speaking parties to accept a devolution of power to the regions.
The plan proposed by Mr Vande Lanotte would see a further decentralisation of power to Belgium's regions, split between the Dutch-speaking Flemish population and French-speaking Walloons.
The big Australian winemakers, such as Southcorp, scientifically classify, grade and blend grapes from various regions in a way that would make the tradition-bound French choke.
They're building a French wine empire by taking cues from their New World counterparts, using simpler labels and emphasizing regions recently embraced by the U.S. consumer: Spain, Chile, Argentina and the once- neglected Languedoc region of France.
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