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I would like to say to Mr Linkohr that the aim is to move towards a European Research Area, and, therefore, to give more structure to research at this level, and he is one of the first within Parliament to have said to me that we should avoid spreading research too thinly. The Framework Programme represents a considerable amount of money, but it only equates to 5% of public spending on research in Europe. We must not, therefore, expect the Framework Programme to fund all European research. What the programme can do is to contribute to acting as a catalyst for European research and to give it greater consistency. If the approach that we adopt is focused on too many sectors, we will then end up with many different measures and our efforts will be too dispersed. We have therefore attempted to tackle the problem by dealing with priority issues first.
I have just mentioned the problem of genomics, which affects many subjects relating to health and biotechnology, but in the field of nanotechnology, with which Mr Linkohr is very familiar, which is, in other words, developing technologies using more intelligent processes and materials which waste less energy and matter, a large number of sectors will be affected, including the automotive and the aeronautics sectors. We are, therefore, aiming for consistency rather than to cover a whole range of problems. I do believe that this issue concerning the number of specific programmes should not prevent a dialogue on the content of the priorities. We will, obviously, be able to go into much more detail in the content of the priorities. You will see that we will make a further step forward by approving the specific programmes. I believe that the dialogue established with the Commission will enable us to further clarify this determination to create the European Research Area.
I think that the current shortcomings are well known. We are spreading our resources too thinly and Europe does not have a critical mass to devote to the main research objectives, in contrast to other developed countries such as the United States and Japan, and so we must create this critical mass. The European programme can help to achieve this, with new provisions, such as improved networking of national programmes. We must encourage coherent action. It is, to some extent, because of this that there are not as many catalogues of specific programmes in each area."@en1
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