Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-25-Speech-2-385"
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"Mr President, here we go again: more posturing, another hubristic attempt to emulate America. The US has the dollar, so we must have the euro; the US has a GPS system, so we must have Galileo; the US has MIT, so we must have EIT. We have perhaps forgotten that MIT is privately financed, not state funded, which is a key reason for its success.
Great academic institutions grow from the bottom up, not from the top down. They do not spring up from the ground fully formed at the stroke of a bureaucrat’s pen.
No one questions the need for innovation and research in Europe, but this is the wrong way to do it. State-imposed solutions will not work. The proposed EIT will duplicate and conflict with existing EU programmes, like the Framework Programme for Research, the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme and the Lifelong Learning Programme.
This proposal exists outside the current Financial Perspective and its funding is by no means assured. No wonder that established and excellent academic institutions in Europe are concerned that they may lose funding, they may lose key staff and they may lose research projects to the EIT.
I can well understand President Barroso thinking of his legacy, but we must not let his legacy damage European universities and research facilities."@en1
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