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Nature 402, 1 (4 November 1999) | doi:10.1038/46847
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Vacuum at the heart of Europe
Abstract
A sudden withdrawal of support by the European Union for key scientific institutes could be a major setback for the continent's biological research and is yet another example of a lack of scientific vision at the European level.
Stick a pin anywhere on a map of Europe, and the country's head of state will at some point have sung fine words about how biology and biotechnology are top research priorities that, along with information technology, will fuel the industrial and medical revolutions of the next century. Such speeches inevitably include a warning that Europe needs to be "competitive with the United States and Japan" and that cooperation is one way of achieving this.
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