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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, while acknowledging the efforts made by the Commissioner to double the funding for the seventh framework programme, we have to accept that, with the miserly agreement on the financial perspective, Europe has wasted an historic opportunity to further the knowledge-based society that is all too often evoked in the Lisbon Strategy and which, if starved of cultural growth and social cohesion, runs the risk of becoming a purely mercantile objective. We have failed to meet Europe’s expectations for such growth.
Once again, I welcome the Commission’s decision to revitalise basic research in Europe after years in which priority was almost exclusively given to supporting applied research for industry. To that end a special programme of funding has been introduced with new participation rules, and a new, independent body has been set up to evaluate scientific excellence.
Among the positive points in the seventh framework programme is the measure to support and train European researchers. Research is one of the fields in which human potential perhaps counts for more than economic instruments and infrastructure. The conditions have to be created to encourage the movement of scientists within Europe, to reverse the brain drain out of Europe and to attract new researchers from non-European countries instead. Concerns remain about possible delays in implementing the seventh framework programme in January next year, given that we still have to go through the approval phase for the specific programmes and the participation rules.
I should like to focus on the individual areas for intervention, starting with medical research. Greater attention needs to be given to this kind of research, prioritising prevention above all, for instance in the fields of occupational diseases and safety at work. I tried to do that with the amendment that I tabled, which I shall re-table in this House on behalf of my group.
With regard to ethical issues in medical research, I believe that the text approved by the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy is well-balanced, as the Commissioner noted, in that it establishes that no funding shall be given to research aimed at human cloning, that induces heritable mutations in the human genome, or that serves to create human embryos.
However, it recognises the need for public medical research in the field of stem cells, not aiming at profit but rather at advancing medical knowledge. I think this is a valuable area on which we should find agreement within Parliament.
It is also important to give open-source software a further boost and to address the energy issue, since the programme does not pay sufficient attention to renewables. I personally believe that Europe’s efforts in fusion research are important to counterbalance nuclear energy from fission.
To conclude, although the seventh framework programme has missed making a quality leap, it does represent a step forwards on the way to creating a genuinely European research area, and I therefore thank Mr Buzek and all the shadow rapporteurs for the work they have accomplished."@en1
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