EU RESEARH FUNDING – AUTO INDUSTRY OPPORTUNITIES – SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME DECISIONS, PROCEDURES
June 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INSTITUTIONS of the European Union (EU) have many critics, but one thing is undeniable about the EU: it has a hell of a lot of money to spend.
And this year the EU is setting its medium-term budget for 2007 to 2013, so industries such as the auto-manufacturing sector are lobbying hard for their sectors to be a spending priority.
For the European Commission can inject millions of Euros into automakers' pockets, and one key area where it does this is through publicly funded research.
The EU's 25 member countries, the European Parliament and ...
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