Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-05-17-Speech-3-305"
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"Mr President, Mrs Plooij-Van Gorsel, ladies and gentlemen, I am personally delighted to have this opportunity to express an opinion on the Commissioner’s communication and to be able to tell him that it is a document of extremely high quality which, as we have seen again this evening, has provided the basis for a relevant debate on revitalising research in Europe.
We have effectively entered the knowledge society, which has led us to put research back at the heart of our society. In Europe, however, as many people have said, the position of research looks worrying if one looks at the figures. It is therefore necessary, as a matter of urgency, to adopt an overall strategy at European level in order to make up for lost time. It is not a matter of casting doubt on the efficiency of the FRDPs. Their results are plain to see. It must be noted, however, that new initiatives need to be adopted in order to decompartmentalise Member States’ national systems which today represent nothing more than a duplication of efforts.
Among the many measures which must be implemented, this evening I shall mention, in particular, the training and the mobility of researchers, to go back to a previous debate which involved the Commissioner and researchers from my own region. I am speaking, therefore, to voice their concerns, for we are not training enough scientific researchers and even fewer European researchers. The training of researchers should therefore include a European dimension, which would offer them greater mobility. Schemes do exist, but, in the real world, before and during implementation, there are administrative obstacles to mobility, such as welfare cover, which discourage many researchers.
I shall end by saying that we must also devote ourselves to informing the citizens, in whom scientific progress raises as much hope as concern. I therefore hope that, in June, our ministers will be able to approve the rapid establishment of a whole series of building sites in Europe, on the basis of the Commissioner’s proposals."@en1
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