RESEARCH PROGRAMME
June 1st, 2001
KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Road Federation has called for a rethink regarding a proposed new four-year research programme, which will probably command a budget of around Euro 17.5 billion. It claims that the European Commission wants to focus too many resources on new areas of research, such as nanotechnology and genomics, at the expense of achieving the EU transport goals.The ERF has called on ministers and MEP's who must approve the so-called Sixth Framework Programme, (2002-2006), to inject transport priorities into its research spending. In particular, it ...
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