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Science 21 January 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5452, pp. 405 - 406
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5452.405a
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EUROPEAN UNION:
Getting Researchers to Pull Together

Robert Koenig

Research in the European Union (E.U.) tends to be driven by the policies and leading laboratories of its 15 member nations rather than by any overarching vision across the whole community. To help put an end to what he calls the "fragmentation, isolation, and compartmentalization of national research efforts" in Europe, the E.U.'s new research commissioner, Philippe Busquin, this week proposed to create a new council of senior officials from pan-European research centers that have a major influence on European research but are run independently by different groups of countries, not by the E.U.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)