Brussels, 07/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 7 March, the European Commission adopted a proposal to extend the budget of the 2007-2011 Euratom Framework Programme, which funds nuclear research, to cover the years 2012 and 2013. This will bring the effective duration of the Euratom Framework Programme into line with the seven-year period of the main Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), which ends in 2013. Adoption of the proposal by the Council would allow the continuation of...