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"Mr President, according to legend, the scientists in Los Alamos who developed the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project in the US during the Second World War spoke Hungarian among themselves. They turned to English only in the presence of Robert Oppenheimer. Indeed, Edward Teller, E. P. Wigner and Leo Szilard were born in Hungary and they studied in Budapest.
We Hungarians belong to a relatively small nation, but we are proud to have 50 Nobel Prize winners, mostly in the natural sciences. As our language is isolated, many talented young Hungarians attracted by the natural sciences seek to carry out activities where there are no linguistic barriers.
Our scientists and young researchers, mainly in mathematics, physics, chemistry and in the life sciences, are very respected all over the world. That is why my country, my compatriots and I are pleased to offer Budapest as a seat of the governing board and a centre of the European Institute of Technology (EIT). Of course, I urge that the decision on the seat should be taken as soon as possible.
As a new Member State, without the seat of any EU institutions, on the one hand, and with extremely rich experiences in natural sciences, on the other hand, Budapest would serve as an ideal seat of the EIT.
I fully support Mr Paasilinna’s report. We do not need a huge bureaucratic organisation, just a network of the knowledge communities. An open and transparent selection procedure on a competitiveness basis for such communities is also of high importance. University research centres and enterprises should cooperate and we have to do our best to involve business in the work of the EIT. Making the EIT visible by labelling the qualifications added through such knowledge communities is likely to bring further added value.
As regards financing, I do not support the idea of financing the EIT from the common agricultural policy fund, as nobody can foresee the next year’s harvest in agriculture."@en1
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