Brussels, 04/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - Last Friday, during a visit to Bern and Lausanne, Commissioner Philippe Busquin stressed that the Swiss scientific community is among the best in the world. He also recalled that Switzerland devotes around 2.8% of its GDP to research, about as much as the United States and Japan, while the European Union does not exceed 1.8%. In his speech at the federal polytechnic college in Lausanne, he expressed regret that Switzerland is the last EFTA country that...