Strasbourg, 26/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - At the conference on major research infrastructures, in Strasbourg last week (also see EUROPE of 23 September, p.9), several ministers joined scientists in their support for the construction of a European Area of Research, in accordance with the plan put forward by Commissioner Philippe Busquin.
Council President Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg stressed that achieving such an "ambitious and necessary" project would represent a "major effort on the part...