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"We are in favour of developing research and thus of funding it. Of all the European institutions’ expenditure, it is certainly not expenditure on research and development that bothers us, provided that it does not serve solely as a pretext for subsidising private companies. We note, however, that it is research funding, along with social expenditure, that is most readily cut, at least in France, so as to increase aids and subsidies to big business.
It remains the case that the entire approach adopted in this report is to see research purely as a factor in competition between Europe and the United States or between different companies. In fact, the report itself is obliged to note that private companies, being essentially concerned with profit, indeed with short-term profits, are neglecting to invest in research.
There is actually a contradiction between the search for profit and scientific research in the interests of society as a whole. We did not vote against this report because we are in favour of public research benefiting from considerably more resources than is currently the case, but neither did we want to sanction the way research takes second place to the race for profit."@en1
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