23/09/2010 (Agence Europe) - To the great pleasure of the Greens, the European Parliament is beginning to get his voice heard on funding for the construction of the experimental nuclear reactor, ITER. On Wednesday 22 September, Yannick Jadot (Green/EFA, France) declared that, “there is overwhelming discontent at the European Parliament's budget committee with the imprecision and contents of the Commission's proposal”. Although the European Union is attempting to find €1.4 billion more by 2013 (and more than €5 billion by 2020) to finance the project, the MEP deplored the fact that, “the Commission is simply proposing to extract €400 million, 460 million from the research budget and the remaining 560 million from a source that still remains a mystery”. Jadot concluded that, “Reimer Böge, the German rapporteur (EPP) for the multiannual financial framework said it himself, ITER funding is just a dog's dinner of figures, of which no one can make head or tail”. (B.C./transl.fl)