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Informal meeting in Lisbon confirms Ministers' support for creation of a European Area of Research - Busquin wants to move into action, with support of the Portuguese Presidency, which intends to launch coordination of national policies

Lisbon, 07/03/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Portuguese Minister of Science and Technology, José Marianno Gago, who has already expressed on several occasions his will to take forward the issue of research policy (see in particular EUROPE of 12 February, page 13), surprised fellow Ministers somewhat when drawing the conclusions, on Monday evening, of the informal meeting of Research Ministers held in Lisbon. After observing that analyses have been made, notably in the framework of preparation...