Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-06-11-Speech-2-321"

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lpv:speaker	lp:John Purvis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, Mrs Zorba's report is very sensible and the PPE-DE Group will support it and almost all the amendments by the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy. These add to the Commission's impressive project of developing a valid European research area. The only amendments we will oppose are No 6, – which excludes European funding for research aimed at military purposes. We do not look for research specifically aimed at military ends, but research might have military as well as civilian applications, for example research into new materials. By including this prohibition clause, there could be unnecessary impediments to genuinely beneficial research projects. We also prefer the committee's Amendment No 24, regarding the budget, to Mrs Zorba's Amendment No 26, which specifies an amount for the Marie Curie International Fellowships. It is surely better to leave the EUR 1.630 billion for human resources unspecified, so that there is more flexibility. We certainly have nothing against the Marie Curie fellowships. Our group has tabled a clarifying Amendment No 25 which specifies that participation will be permitted by those who hold doctoral degrees where those degrees were obtained in three, rather than four, years. I trust that Mrs Zorba will accept that this is a sensible clarification. I would like to concentrate on the specific programme for science and society, which is essential for re-establishing the necessary level of trust and mutual understanding between the scientific community and civil society at large. This is vital if Europe's research effort is to be supported widely and with continuity and thereby realise its full potential. We have seen a lamentable breakdown in this relationship, perhaps as a result of faulty assertions by scientists and politicians in previous crises. Perhaps it is even more attributable to a lack of willingness by science and industry to communicate clearly and systematically. Our hope is that this programme will promote much improved communication and that the public will be much better informed about the objectives, the results, the applications, the achievements, the recognition of the ethical and environmental constraints and the practical usefulness of scientific endeavour. We hope, above all, that more young people will be attracted to science as a career. We badly need them for all our futures. We wish Mr Busquin, his team and this programme well."@en1
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