Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-18-Speech-2-101"
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"The Linkohr report denounces the fact that research spending is too low in Europe. We are obviously in favour of increasing research funding, but the reasoning in this report becomes unacceptable when it comes to what this increase should be directed towards. It never mentions the contribution that research can make to improving living and working conditions or protecting the environment.
The only reason put forward for funding research is Europe’s competitiveness and stature. The method proposed to achieve this is research carried out on a competitive basis, which bows more to the commercial interests of private companies. The report notes that not all research activities have the expected positive impact on European economies; it therefore recommends that a European system be put in place to define criteria for effectiveness and success and to evaluate research on the basis of these criteria. In fact it is precisely the community of researchers and scientists in France and other European countries that is protesting against the drastic cuts in public funding and against the obligation to direct research towards those areas that will more quickly turn in a profit.
As we join with them defending the freedom of research on behalf of the general interest, I voted against this report and the dangerous premise underlying it."@en1
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