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Science 29 June 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5526, p. 2425
DOI: 10.1126/science.292.5526.2425
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EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA:
E.U. Research Chief's Strategy: Unite and Conquer

Robert Koenig

BRUSSELS--To mixed reviews, European Union research commissioner Philippe Busquin is striving to integrate European research to put it on an even footing with the United States. His plan for the "European Research Area"--a sprawling effort to better coordinate the continent's rich but scattered scientific strongholds--has won some influential converts. But others question whether Busquin's pan-European research vision will ever be more than a pipe dream, and they worry that the multilateral projects his office stimulates will relegate smaller players, from Austria to Slovenia, to the sidelines.

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