31/03/2015 (Agence Europe) - Defence R&D: good start for high-level group. On Monday 30 March, Elzbieta Bienkowska, the European commissioner for industry, chaired the first high-level group on defence research. She described the meeting as “very good” and said that the exchanges between scientists, politicians and business leaders had been fruitful. The group is due to propose a defence research programme (see EUROPE 11285) and Bienkowska stated that the final report would be ready in...