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Opinion
Nature 391, 1 (1 January 1998) | doi:10.1038/33981
Fading pan-European visions?
Abstract
Making the most of European collaboration would seem to be sensible as pressures on research budgets intensify. But those with the power to pursue that agenda are failing to do so.
About forty years ago, a grand moment arrived for those visionaries who, since 1945, had been working to increase economic cooperation between European states: the establishment of the common market and the European Economic Community, signified in the Treaty of Rome of 1957. In the post-war years, the idea that science should also be supported in a pan-European manner was almost taken for granted.
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