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The report highlights the extent to which the situation in the Central and Eastern European candidate countries (CEECs) has deteriorated during the ‘painful readjustment process of CEECs’.
In terms of research alone, this observation is indicative of a more general state. The collapse of research, the collapse of public funding which had previously been allocated to research, and the derisory salaries of researchers leading to ‘brain drain’, with researchers moving abroad or to jobs in the private sector, are just some of the milestones of this ‘transition … to market economies’ of which the European authorities are so proud.
We are told that the European programmes intended to support research in these countries could remedy this backwards step. The rapporteur does not really believe this himself, however, as he only foresees stabilisation in the long term.
In the meantime, Western European businesses can pick and choose. They take advantage of qualified researchers who are even more poorly paid than in the West and who have no other choice. That alone speaks volumes about the true social content and nature of ‘enlargement’. The only reason we are not voting against this report, therefore, is because some of the programmes and financing stipulated might perhaps, even if originally intended to support Western European industry, help certain Eastern European researchers in some small way."@en1
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