13/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commissioner for Research, Philippe Busquin, and six Nobel Prize winners (Erwin Neher, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Kalus von Klitzing, Sir James Black, Tim Hunt, J. Georg Bednorz) last week commented on the initiative by 45 Nobel Prize winners to support the creation of a European Council for Research, as an independent office to fund basic sciences. They believe that European competitiveness based on a knowledge society can only develop with this...