Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-15-Speech-4-013"

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dcterms:Date	"2001-02-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Research guidelines 2002 – 20062
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010215.1.4-013"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-15-Speech-4-0142
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; CONT (2000-05-03--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, the EU is to have a single currency and will therefore have a common currency zone. There is also a desire to make the EU a common scientific area, eventually to become a scientific superpower. In many fields the EU is already a scientific superpower. Not all the results and methods applied become common practice, however, as many large countries appear to have their eye purely on their own national, commercial and military interests. They should be opening up their projects to others more. If that does not happen, the EU will not be a genuine European Research Area, and EU money will be used to finance just the scraps and leftovers, for which there are insufficient national funds owing to the fact that the work is deemed to generally lack importance. In Finland we use the expression ‘meaningless research’. That means research that produces results that no one needs, uses, criticises or adds to. The European Research Area must not become an area of meaningless research and EU money must not be spent on financing meaningless research. We have to solve the problem that there is no qualitative monitoring of the use of EU funds in which radically scientific achievements might be appraised. It is to be feared that the use of funds is inefficient in scientific terms. It is possible that a common research centre will mean more bureaucracy than science. For that reason, we must demand that any common research area must be developed according to scientific criteria. I would like to thank Mrs Plooij-van Gorsel for her thorough work in the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy. The report’s only flaw is its call for an alliance between science and the armaments industry."@en1

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