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"We oppose the reactionary restructuring of the field of research that is being promoted in the EU’s basic guidelines for the creation of a European Research Area (ERA) within the framework of the Lisbon Strategy.
The ERA is encouraging conflict and competition for profit between countries and large business groups. As a result, inequalities in scientific development will be intensified.
Incentives, subsidies and tax exemptions are increased for monopoly companies, allowing them to invest in and make use of the results for themselves. The public sector is subordinated to the needs of the monopoly groups it serves. The mobility of researchers between companies, universities and research centres is being promoted and the European patent system is being supported on the grounds of cost. Everything is being subordinated to competitiveness and the rise in profitability.
In such a harshly competitive environment, which is present even in the world of research, attention will inevitably focus on the well-known ‘centres of excellence’ of the powerful nations. These centres will secure the lion’s share of the research programmes, which will be channels for public and private funds.
We are striving to overturn the EU’s research policy. This is part of our struggle for the complete reversal of the anti-popular policy upheld by the EU and by capitalism. We hope to restore the social nature of science: research and science should serve today’s popular needs and social welfare."@en1
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