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Nature 405, 723 (15 June 2000) | doi:10.1038/35015755

European centres rebuffed in infrastructure funding bid

Quirin Schiermeier

Hopes that this week's meeting of Europe's research ministers might produce a quick political solution to the financial crisis threatening European life-sciences infrastructures appear to have been dashed. The ministers have forced José Mariano Gago, Portugal's science minister and president of the European research council, to back down from a proposal to instruct the European Union (EU) to revise its existing funding rules, which exclude support of running costs for scientific facilities.