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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the seventh framework programme is the creation of a Europe unfortunately in decline, despite its provision of EUR 50 524 million over seven years. If we do the sums, that amount corresponds to an average of EUR 7 217 million per year, which in my country is the equivalent of half a percentage point of GDP, in France an even smaller percentage, in the United Kingdom even less, and in Germany a quarter of a percentage point of GDP.
Europe is weak. The only compromise that it has been possible to reach on the financial perspective for 2007-2013 is too little for the European Parliament, for the European Commission, and also for European research.
Left over from a Europe still disoriented by the failure to ratify the Constitutional Treaty, the multiannual budget agreement reflects the difficulties of an uninspiring economic cycle, and it has therefore not allowed us to double our financial commitment for the immediate future of European research, as we had hoped
the Lisbon agenda.
This framework programme, the first one in the Europe of 25, reflects a decision to maintain substantial continuity with the previous one. It recognises the importance that the last one accorded to research cooperation, which is a sign of European added value; it shows consideration for small and medium-sized enterprises, for which it facilitates the transfer of research content through technological platforms; and it is careful to budget for administrative costs.
The programme, however, also intends to innovate by setting up the European Research Council, a new instrument that should distinguish itself through its ability to bring European research together, acting as a focus for excellence. A number of doubts have arisen as to the need to create this new body, and they should certainly not be ignored. These doubts still persist after the debate on its independence and autonomy, but they may vanish in view of the performance and results that the European Research Council will be able to achieve.
I therefore wish them all every success in their work. We shall take the greatest care to ensure that the European Research Council does not become yet another European bureaucratic shambles. Our children would not forgive us if it did.
There is just one matter that remains unsettled, and more than any other it stirs our conscience in a variety of ways: the question of ethics. It is not written down that the European Union wants to fund human cloning. Instead, it has the freedom to fund projects that successfully pass through a two-tier appraisal of the content of each individual project, based on the national laws currently in force. I think it is a good compromise that everyone can accept."@en1
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