Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-13-Speech-2-034"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-06-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Seventh framework programme – Nuclear research and training activities (2007-2011) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060613.6.2-034"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-06-13-Speech-2-0352
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-21--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ITRE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, a common research policy for the European Union should produce the sort of scientific and economic added value that is not achievable through the efforts and actions of individual Member States and private companies. An example of a good joint project is the financing of fusion energy research associated with the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). My view is therefore different from that of Mrs Harms before me. This is a project which individual Member States should not try and implement alone. It is one whose success will be by no means guaranteed within the next 50 years. The research needed, however, should be completed. Energy-guzzling humanity can ill afford not to examine this possibility. The research is also bound to mean making the sort of discoveries that in English is known as ‘serendipity’. Something will be discovered which one did not know one was looking for, but which was discovered as a by-product of fusion energy research proper. In that respect, money for research will not be wasted, even if we never succeed in taming the actual fusion process so that more energy is produced using it than is needed to get the process started. Third countries are also involved in ITER: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, and even China. It is quite right to use the funds in the EU’s Research Framework Programme for this truly international project. At the same time we need to do more research into renewable energy sources and make more use of them, and in this respect I am of the same opinion as the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance."@en1

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