Brussels, 18/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - As Commissioner Philippe Busquin never fails to point out (see, notably, EUROPE of 18 March, p.9), Europe needs to take on at least 700,000 new scientists by 2001. In order to fulfil this need, it has become essential to improve the European Union's attractiveness to third-country scientists. It was against this backdrop that the European Commission has just adopted a raft of proposals to facilitate the entry and residency of scientists from third...