Translate the following English sentence to French:
"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, those who work on rural areas know that, of the programmes which the European Union has managed, the LEADER programme, both LEADER I and LEADER II, is one of its success stories, and I hope that the same will be true of LEADER+."
Monsieur le Président, chers Commissaires, Mesdames et Messieurs, toutes les personnes en charge de la politique rurale savent que Leader, tant Leader I que Leader II et, je l' espère, Leader+, compte parmi les grandes réussites de l' Union européenne en matière de gestion de programmes.