Brussels, 26/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - It was just a formality, and in the words of Dutch Minister for Education and Science, Maria van der Hoeven, it was by approaching it as such that the Council approved the new negotiation mandate on ITER, to seek a six-partner solution on the basis of a "privileged partnership" extended to Japan.
However, the Council spent around three hours on its first discussions with the new Commissioner for Research, Janez Potocnik, who, according to various...