EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA, A UTOPIA?

• Position: Technology Information - Brief Article

Research Commissioner Phlippe Busquin dreams of creating a "European Research Area" to gradually replace national actions with a genuine European strategy. While his project was broadly welcomed by the Council of Ministers (see Tech Europe No 177 for further details), the first reactions from Member States hint at a measure of scepticism. This was certainly the case at a recent meeting in Finland of national agencies funding research. Several expressed fears that...