FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVES AGREEMENT FP7 BUDGET INCREASE EUA EUROPEAN COMMISSION – EUROPEAN COUNCIL

BY KEITH NUTHALL TONY Blair has been attacked by the chairman of the European Parliament's research committee for failing to secure a better deal for researchers within the European Union's (EU) medium term 'financial perspectives' budget, that was agreed last Friday. Giles Chichester MEP said analysis of the detailed UK proposal made on December 5 would have created an EU seventh framework programme (FP7) on research commanding only Euro 42.7 billion, rather than the Euro 70 billion sought by the European Commission. And although the deal agreed at the European ...


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